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We’re constantly told to ‘just be ourselves’ but I totally disagree, you can be so much more
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Arianna Walker2022-06-13T08:30:00
We’re surrounded by motivational sayings like ‘be yourself, everyone else is taken’. But Mercy UK’s Arianna Walker explains that it’s too simplistic and people often use it to excuse bad behaviour.
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