I was still being wheeled around in a pram when my parents began to predict that I would one day become a lawyer. The prediction was based on the size of my forehead, something in my facial expression and a general bookish passivity — a sharp contrast to my action-oriented siblings. True, I did not see the point of determining the substance of things by smashing them with a hammer.
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation. He writes here in a personal capacity.
Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation. He writes here in a personal capacity.