Why bother trying to impart wisdom?

Let’s make the same mistakes over and over again.

Michael Freer
Nov 4 · 3 min read
Photo by James Lee on Unsplash

“Do as I say, not as I do.”

That was one of the pieces of advice I remember my Dad giving me when I was younger. It was his way of empowering himself by removing meaning of some of the things he did, so we couldn’t call him out on them. It didn’t work!

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Michael Freer

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Social enterprise enthusiast, avid traveller and fiction writer.

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