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Walking Out Of Things You Hate Is Good, Actually

You don't owe performers your attention.

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Ben Dreyfuss
Aug 15, 2022
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There is an old quip about a professor giving a student an F on a paper after only reading the first page. “But you didn’t even read the whole thing,” the student whines. “If I contract a disease I don’t need to let it run its course to say that it is bad,” the professor responds.

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