The Last Lecture
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If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
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“What makes me unique?”
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I asked myself: “What do I, alone, truly have to offer?”
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“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
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“That is what it is. We can’t change it. We just have to decide how we’ll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
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that even if I was in a position of strength, whether at work or in relationships, I had to play fair. “Just because you’re in the driver’s seat,” he’d say, “doesn’t mean you have to run people over.”
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As an aside, there’s a lesson here: Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.