In my mind, “taking what I can get” usually means I’m setting aside my ego and accepting a piecemeal advantage which I can eventually leverage into a future goal.
Sometimes, it means holding firm and refusing an offer, because the refusal either opens me up to a better opportunity, or I receive more in a subtler, more fulfilling sense of the word.
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Okay, call me stupid. I get paragraph 2, as in know when to hold, fold or bank but cannot draw even a metaphorical link between that and the first paragraph. P1 I get as even minor victories in any context are better than none. Maybe it’s the word get as opposed to the stasis of a holding pattern.I’m not winding you up here, just a curiosity as I’ve been reading your books. Which would be much better as graphic novels. That’s not a wind up, either, just an observation. Happy Near Year! May you get the bear more often than the bear gets you in 2021.
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Maybe a simpler way to say it is never shortchange yourself. In the specific sense, it could go with outward acceptance or denial, depending on what the best advice is from combined logic and intuition.
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Ah. Accept less if that’s all there is, deny less if there’s a potentially better outcome.
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