A lot of doors open up when you are willing to settle with second best. Many of these doors never get within reach when you are unwilling to settle with anything less than perfect.
The art, of course, is in deciding what the areas are that you are never going to compromise.
When you have clarity about that, it’s a lot easier to see where second best is actually better than never opening the door.
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