photo by Carolyn V. on Unsplash Late on a rainy Monday evening last autumn, a group of my friends and friends of friends were having tea just south of Central Park; we were all from different backgrounds, pursuing vastly different career trajectories, and we were all in our 20s. Our conversation began as a discussion of gratitude—appropriately topical, since Thanksgiving was around the corner—but as it evolved, we realized the crux of our discussion centered upon barriers we