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Card VII: Nike

Write like you're flying

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Sep 15, 2025
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What if your writing didn’t come from sitting still, but rather from picking up speed?

What if the breakthrough wasn’t in thinking harder, but in moving faster, until your ideas caught the rhythm of your breath and something lifted?

This is the spirit of Card VII: Nike.

Not Nike as a winner.

But Nike as wind.

The goddess of movement.

The goddess of motion.

The…

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