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Please Try To Be Decent When Telling Us About Your 2020 Success

5 tips about how to brag responsibly so that people don’t think you are an asshole

Zita Fontaine
6 min readJan 4, 2021
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It has been a tough year, 2020. Yes, we all know it. But in fairness, if you think about it it was just another year, where many many other things happened, not just the pandemic, the lockdowns, the restrictions and the loss.

Babies were born, people fell in love, weddings were celebrated, people still got divorced, people still started businesses and wrote books — if you think about it, pretty much business as usual, just slightly uphill.

But it has been a tough year, and the hardships, the loss, the frustration left marks on our collective psyche — even if sometimes on an individual basis some days or even weeks looked exactly as days or weeks of any other year.

And as in any other year, no matter how tough, there has been success stories. There have been successful businesses, great investments, huge viral articles and online miracles. There have been bestsellers written and love found.

There are plenty of good stories to tell — maybe because the success was achieved due to or despite the pandemic. And we all love stories! We love to read about the success of others and the inspiration that hits…

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Zita Fontaine
Zita Fontaine

Written by Zita Fontaine

Writer. Dreamer. Hopeless romantic. Newsletter: zita.substack.com Email me: zitafontaine (at) gmail

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