Accordingly, she placed conditions on her acceptance of the job: that she would have direct access to Mr Obama whenever she pleased, and that she would be able to bring in her own staff.

When she got the acceptance letter, in 1936, she realized his mistake and asked a professor at McGill University whether she could accept the job.

This means all of our work on acceptance is an inside job, and it further means that the more internal we go, the more of the external we can receive.