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it’s quite possible to reinvent your career even late in life.
great many of us work far more than that)
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -W. Edwards Deming
the rate of change is accelerating.
Alexander Graham Bell said: “When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
change is inevitable, the key is learning how to manage it.
Problems are much easier to deal with when they’re still small than if you you’ve let them grow over time.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
While I’ve met many people who focus on being smart and working hard, I know few people who regularly focus on learning from their own experience and the experience of others. I’ve noticed that if you are one of those few who try to learn every day, it makes a huge difference over long periods of time.
Be curious. Kids naturally are curious and they are able to learn and progress at very rapid rates.
No one domain or field has a lock on wisdom. I’ve been astonished how much you can learn if you read widely across a variety of fields. I read as much as I can.
people have two eyes, two ears, and only one mouth for a reason.
life is not like a math problem with one perfect solution.
sometimes you can get wonderful outcomes from terrible decisions.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
A clear, stretch goal. If the goal is too easy, it won’t feel like an achievement; if it’s unrealistic, you’ll never do the work. Love for what you’re doing. Very hard work, often over a long period of time. A sense of realism about the world, and your own limitations. As we used to say at Microsoft: you can't boil the ocean. Nor can you make people come back from the dead. Flexibility and perseverance -- you’ll need to adapt to the curve balls life will throw at you. …And, often, a bit of luck.
