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Now, let's begin today's episode.

Have you ever stood in the middle of a grocery store, holding three different kinds of

olive oil, quietly wondering, how does everyone seem to know

which one to pick? And the thing is, this is not really about olive oil. It's about that low hum

of uncertainty, that quiet sense that somehow, somewhere, everyone else got the manual,

right? How to be a friend, how to be in a relationship, how to handle money, or navigate

heartbreak, or even how to pick olive oil for that matter.

And here you are flipping through invisible pages,

searching for chapters that explains how to be human without messing it up.

It's okay.

We're in this together.

So today I want to talk about this myth, the myth that we all know,

the one where we imagine everyone else has it all figured out. And we are the only ones fumbling through life. So let's sit

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