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In too many domains of our lives, we never gain enough expertise to question our opinions or discover what we don’t know.
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Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe. Values are your core principles in life – they might be excellence and generosity, freedom and fairness, or security and integrity.
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As we approach any life transition… we can pause to ask people what they wish they’d known before they went through the experience.
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Once we’re on the other side of [a life transition], we can share what we ourselves should have rethought.
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We foreclose on all kinds of life plans. Once you’ve committed to one, it becomes part of your identity, making it difficult to de-escalate.
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By investing in learning and problem solving, we can develop our passions – and build the skills necessary to do the work and lead the lives we find worthwhile.
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At work and in life, the best we can do is plan for what we want to learn and contribute over the next year or two, and stay open to what might come next.
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Our identities are open systems, and so are our lives. We don’t have to stay tethered to old images of where we want to go or who we want to be.
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Most of what we want to do is hard. That’s life. Encountering problems, discouragement, and disappointment is inevitable.
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…our views about talent, which are extremely deeply held, are extraordinarily important for the future of our lives, our children’s lives, our companies, and the people in them.
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