Everyone thinks their contribution was the most important part, the key to making it happen. Even if theirs was the tiniest part, it was the most important…there’s a voice inside saying “this wouldn’t be what it is without me”.
And they’re right. And you’re right. And I’m right.
So you have an opportunity to tell them that they were the key. Not in a patronizing way, but in a genuine way…and by doing that you’re also saying “what you were secretly thinking was the truth“ and that is something we LONG for.
p.s. Most of us are afraid of admitting someone else was the key, because we then believe that if they are they key that we aren’t the key…and if we aren’t the key then what’s even the point.
That’s a lonely life.
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