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won or lost any election when the earth

is uninhabitable.”

If you’re a sensitive sort, then you

may be in the habit of pretending to be

more of a politician and less cautious or

single-mindedly focused than you actually

are. But in this chapter I’m asking

you to rethink this view. Without

people like you, we will, quite literally,

drown.

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Back here at Walker Creek Ranch and

the gathering for sensitive people, the

Extrovert Ideal and its primacy of cool

is turned upside down. If “cool” is low

reactivity that predisposes a person to

boldness or nonchalance, then the

crowd that has come to meet Elaine

Aron is deeply uncool.

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