I have used these three categories to help people sort out the pathways of their lives. First I ask them to partition their lives into five-year blocks (0–5, 5–10, 10–15, etc.). Then I invite them to do their best to fill each block with the names of the influential people, the great ideas and the critical events that relate to each block. I warn that this cannot be done in an evening or a weekend. It will likely take several weeks if not months. The recapture of one memory often leads to another. We become surprised and sometimes shocked at what lurks deep within that has been stored for
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