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…from examining the early lives of business greats… they didn’t seem to hold any identifiable gift or give any early indication of what they would become.
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Research going back decades suggests that personality dimensions don’t vary much over the course of a person’s life. But of course that doesn’t necessarily limit a person’s achievement; it may limit only the fields in which a person is most likely to excel.
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Starting early holds advantages that become less available later in life.
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If assessors all felt comfortable drawing insights from their own lives… organizations’ ability to make sense of jagged résumés would be far more advanced than it is.
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It takes a special sort of courage to revisit the critical junctures in our lives, and to look at them calmly and with clarity.
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The farther people advance in life, the less guidance anyone else can provide about what to do next.
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If someone says or does something that makes us feel that we couldn’t trust them with our lives, then we keep our distance.
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…to know the name and details of the life of someone we are trying to help with our product, service or policy makes a huge difference.
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As our wealth and attitudes changed, we started to transform from a country that would fight to protect a way of life into a country that would fight to protect the way we prefer to live.
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Beneath the surface of everyday life is a hidden pattern: crucial, unexpected, and revealing.
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