How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author questions their utility and seeks to identify the potential value within themselves.
- In plain terms
- I wonder how I can be useful.
- What can you take from it?
- Seek your inner value.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How can you be useful?
- What is inside you?
Another view
You may already be useful without knowing.
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