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NICHOLAS BOOTHMAN
rightly so. But I’d traded in one tool of my trade for
another. Now there was no going back: I had to
succeed. I wrote and wrote and rewrote and five
months later got a New York publishing deal and a six
figure advance.
Assume the Best
If you are going to make assumptions, assume the
best. As I write this book, I assume I like you, the
reader. I assume I need you; I assume you need me.
And what’s more, I assume I’m right. This is what
gives me the confidence to keep on writing.
Assumptions at their best are great for learning, but
at their worst they lead to biased, unfair, limiting and
dangerous fantasies. If your imagination has been
distorting information to scare you away from people,
all I ask is your understanding that your imagination is
tricking you into making negative assumptions about
earth angels and magic moments based on past
experience.
Assuming you will meet Earth Angels, you start to
see the world as a place of possibility and connection,
rather than isolation and disconnection. Assuming an
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