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You also need to be able to pay your rent, food and health insurance while you change direction. Any improvement plan takes time, and carries the risk of failure.

It's easy to get - and to remain - stuck. You don't/can't viscerally understand that if you've never been in that position.

It's easy to tell someone to just do x, y and z. It's not easy to do x, y and z when there is a substantial risk of catastrophic failure.




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