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Other than luck and haphazard circumstance, our ability to envision ourselves making good choices, teamed with a willingness to 'pretend' we're committed to reaching useful goals, until the pretense becomes familiar enough to evolve into enthusiastic habit, is a pretty solid recipe for becoming that person we've spent such time and effort convincing ourselves was not a possibility.
The promise of books like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "Smarter Faster Better" is not to tell us what we should be like but to give us tools for becoming that way, devices to get us from our native diffidence and clinginess to where we already know we want to be, friendly and adaptable.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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