<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Most people do not fail to act because they lack... > {{Most people do not fail to act because they lack knowledge; they fail because no one is standing beside them when it is time to begin.}} A woman going through a divorce did something this week she would never have done in a billion years: she had her AI assistant email the courthouse to ask questions about her case. She learned no new fact and acquired no new skill; the email was drafted, sent, and answered through a counterpart that did not flinch at the bureaucracy she had been avoiding. What changed was not her understanding but her accompaniment — someone, or something, willing to make the first move beside her. {{It is rarely ignorance that stops a person; it is the loneliness of the first step.}} **Source:** [[wired/The Courthouse Email|The Courthouse Email]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Most people do not fail to act because they lack knowledge; they fail because no one is standing beside them when it is time to begin. A woman going through a divorce did something this week she would never have done in a billion years: she had her AI assistant email the courthouse to ask questions about her case. She learned no new fact and acquired no new skill; the email was drafted, sent, and answered through a counterpart that did not flinch at the bureaucracy she had been avoiding. What changed was not her understanding but her accompaniment — someone, or something, willing to make the first move beside her. It is rarely ignorance that stops a person; it is the loneliness of the first step.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-most-people-fail-loneliness-first-step ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->