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# Many business and relationship failures are...
> Many business and relationship failures are failures of intimacy: nobody names the real fear, asks the direct question, or remains present long enough to hear the difficult answer. Technique cannot repair a conversation whose participants are hiding from one another.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Writing Your Own Life — Passion, Action, and the Freedom to Change - Workbook|Writing Your Own Life — Passion, Action, and the Freedom to Change]]
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“Many business and relationship failures are failures of intimacy: nobody names the real fear, asks the direct question, or remains present long enough to hear the difficult answer. Technique cannot repair a conversation whose participants are hiding from one another.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-business-relationship-failures-participants-hiding-another
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