You’ll Never Get What You Want If You’re Too Scared to Ask For It

A story about being brave in moments that matter

Michael Thompson
Forge
Published in
4 min readJan 7, 2020

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The woman sat at her kitchen table staring at the four names. In this moment, despite her 83 years, she felt like a nervous teenager. She couldn’t believe what she was doing.

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Michael Thompson
Forge
Writer for

I grew up stuttering and now teach storytelling to Fortune 500s, MBA students, and first graders • Free "story" guide: https://bit.ly/3h1KZeT