“You Shall Not Pass!”

Steven Barnes
7 min readOct 5, 2021

One of the questions its fun to ask is: if you could send a “message in a bottle back through time to your younger self, what would you say?” Sometimes that is limited by “in twenty words or less” or the like.

What if we limited that again: we’re not talking about stock or betting tips. We’re talking about relationships.

  1. What have you learned about intimate relationships now that you didn’t understand when you were twenty?
  2. What have you learned about business relationships that you didn’t understand when you were twenty?

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.