Please Stop Telling Your Kids to Have a Plan B

There’s a difference between being practical and killing dreams

Scott Woods
LEVEL
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7 min readJun 2, 2021

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My father gave me two pieces of advice when I was very young. First, never dig a pile of dirt from the middle. (Shovel at the bottom, so the…

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Scott Woods
LEVEL
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Writer and poet holding down Columbus, Ohio