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I remember the night that Barack Obama was elected president.

On the night of that election, like many people, I was watching the results roll in.

I don't pay much attention during the campaign season. To me, the

political rhetoric that consumes people for the year going into an election is nothing more than

the net effect of sensational seeking news media having a feel day with the public's attention.

I'm not going to allow any of my time, attention, and creative capacity to be monopolized

and thus monetized by yet another talking lizard selling insurance.

But I do vote and I like to make an informed choice.

So I watch the final couple of the debates

and I do a few minutes of research and I ask around enough

to cast an intelligent vote.

Then in the end I love to see the two speeches, one from the loser and one from the winner.

I'm far more a fan of debates and speeches than I am of politics. That's where you could really

learn something interesting. As I watched the few minutes of the newly reelected President

Obama's speech, I was struck with a fantastic success epiphany. I realized in that moment why I was not more successful and the answer was

I'm still too worried about being liked.

There he was Barack Obama for a second time being elected president of the United States of America,

making him one of the most powerful people on the planet.

Yet even as he stood there with his wife and two daughters

waiting at the smiling crowd and thousands of people in the audience

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