Child prodigy turned world-famous violinist Joshua Bell took his 3.5 million dollar instrument, wore a baseball cap, and busked Bach in a Washington DC train station. Over 45 minutes, more than 1,000 people walked past; just 7 stopped. The anecdote reframes rejection as an environmental problem rather than a personal one — and it sticks because the contrast is so stark.
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