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What does it mean?
Prioritize listening to your own voice over others.
In plain terms
Listen to yourself instead of other people.
What can you take from it?
Trust your own voice more than others.

Where it applies

  • decision making
  • creative work
  • personal growth

Putting it to work

  • trust yourself
  • limit distractions
  • follow your path

Questions to consider

  • Whose advice do you value?
  • What do you hear inside?

Another view

Isolation can lead to unchecked bias.

More from Gertrude Stein

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  2. Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

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  3. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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