Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

There Is a Third Door

Daily Chase #285

Jul 07, 2026
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brown wooden door on gray concrete wall
Photo by Akriti Singh on Unsplash

We were raised with a false choice. When something hard hits — a sharp comment, a disappointing result, a conversation that goes sideways — we default to one of two options: act out the emotion or stuff it down. Explode or suppress. Door one, door two.

Author and teacher Margaret Cullen calls this the emotional dichotomy …

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