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Pithy quotes written in hot pink script. Video footage from late-night talk shows. Audio clips of live(ly) performances. The internet has attempted to celebrate Dolly Parton's memory with the volume and breadth befitting an icon.

Except there can never be enough for a person whose most adored trait was being too much. A living, breathing anomaly. Humble yet confident. Ambitious but kind. Petite and powerful. What made Dolly unique wasn't just that she did everything on her own terms and in her own way… but that her unapologetic approach actually worked.

From shading Elvis to building an amusement park in the Smoky Mountains, Dolly's principles guided her business acumen. It's almost as if her conviction carried her career… not the other way around.

Often in life, we spend so much time worrying about making the «right» decision that we forget why we're making it in the first place. For the intended result or for the enjoyment of the process? Ideally, both. Sometimes, the factors are so complex that decisions can't simply be influenced by fact. We gotta get into some feels.

We also have to acknowledge that we might whiff. Decision-making isn't a science. The algorithms and chatbots would like us to believe differently, suggesting (demanding?) that perfection is possible and efficiency is essential.

What they're missing is actual lived experience. A cellular understanding that the vector between choice and resolution does not, in fact, exist in a straight line. It's all swirly. Full of zigzags and beautifully jagged edges. Those spikes and slopes aren't just the data accrued but, also, lessons learned. Like Ms. Dolly said, «If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.»

Surrendering to fallibility makes room for