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Where is the line between a role model you admire and a competitor you envy?
Good for them.
I'm so glad that they're more successful than I am.
So, Angela, we recently received an interesting email from Trisha, who says, why do humans seem to need to see someone like me in order to feel they can achieve something?
There is no one like me except me.
So if I truly want to do something, I will do what I can to do it.
Where does that like me come from?
Let me just say to Trisha, when you say, there is no one like me except me, I mean, no, there are a lot of people who are like you.
Oh, really?
I thought she was 100% right on that.
Look, there is no other Trisha.
And, you know, I'm not just giving Trisha a hard time, but there are people who have some resemblance to Trisha in their personality and character, in their gender, in their ethnicity.
I don't want to get talmudic here, but I'm kind of feeling like there are so many times where we see somebody and we say, oh, they're like me.
And we don't mean they are exactly us.