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After talking to many people, professionals, businesspeople alike, I arrived at the conclusion that people who don’t invest usually hold back for one of these three reasons: ​
​ And that’s about money. ​ But what about personal investments in personal growth? ​ The reasons are also 3: ​
​ In both cases, they rely on free content in social media, their cousins or brothers-in-law. ​ The result is that:
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