CHAPTER 4

RUN FARTHER WITH IMPERFECT FRIENDS

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The morning after he left Keith’s house, Ryan looked me up online and began to dive deep into my content. He didn’t find what he expected. Most of my articles showed my true, authentic, vulnerable self—which as you know involved lots of failures and struggles and flaws. He didn’t know what to think. When he read my post about impostor syndrome (more about the syndrome below), he turned to his girlfriend, Cyn, in disbelief and said, “This article says he is a fraud, and he wrote it?” Even though Ryan was surprised by the level of candor in my content, he decided that if I could get the results he was ...

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