In the work of the present, people take serious someone else suceding
where they have tried and failed.  In the work of the near past, people
take seriously that which gives them identity, often what they have been
told is emblematic of their identity.

The best road is not to worry about what "they" take seriously, but to find
people who take what you want to accomplish seriously, and work with them.
If you have something to say then eventually others will over hear the
conversation and what to join in.

Stirling S Newberry
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