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Life on this turbulent, complex planet is no longer linear and sequential, one thing logically leading to another. It is spontaneous, contrary, unexpected, and ambiguous.
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019 |
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Only when we know what we’re made of and what we want to make of it can we begin our lives – and we must do it despite an unwitting conspiracy of people and events against us.
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044 |
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When you write your own life, then no matter what happens, you have played the game that was natural for you to play.
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047 |
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Applauding yourself for the small successes, and taking the small bow, are good ways of learning to experience life each moment that you live it. And that’s part of inventing yourself, of creating your own destiny.
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048 |
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…innovative learning requires that you trust yourself, that you be self-directed rather than other-directed in both your life and your work.
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071 |
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There is nothing you can do about your early life now, except to understand it. You can, however, do everything about the rest of your life.
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074 |
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One of the marvelous things about life is that any gaps in your education can be filled, whatever your age or situation, by reading, and thinking about what you read.
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078 |
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Life has never been simple and is growing more complex all the time, yet we persist in attempting to reduce it to bumper-sticker dimensions.
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095 |
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No leaders sets out to be a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders.
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106 |
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Your accumulated experience is the basis for the rest of your life, and that base is solid and sound to the degree that you have reflected on it, understood it, and arrived at a workable resolution.
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112 |
