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By leaving our bubbles, we widen our perspectives and, for at least a moment, relinquish what David Foster Wallace once called our “natural, hard-wired default-setting . . . to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.”

And they will not relinquish that power voluntarily.

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Earlier in October, Andrew issued a personal statement saying he would be relinquishing all of his royal titles, including the Duke of York.

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But as the 70-year-old reflects on the role he recently relinquished, he thinks he was fixing professional golf—not breaking it.

"They don't like it when the belts, in their eyes, just get handed about if people relinquish them," Wardley said.

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