Tag: life lessons
The moments that shaped how I see the world — growing up, failure, reinvention, and the lessons nobody teaches you.
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Stories Don’t Explain a Principle — They Install It
Stories don’t explain a principle — they install it. What happened when 650 creativity exercises revealed the difference…
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Riding the Wave
I was diagnosed with what they used to call manic-depressive disorder in my mid-twenties, and I’ve spent the…
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Half the Jobs Haven’t Been Invented Yet
We’re training students for jobs that are disappearing while the jobs that will matter in ten years haven’t…
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She Had the Baby on Friday and Was Back in Class on Monday
A student had her baby on Friday and was back in class on Monday. After 25 years of…
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When You Stop Learning, You Start Dying
My Aunt Georgie lived sharp until the very end, and watching her taught me that staying mentally active…
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Dad Taught Me How to Prepare
My father wasn’t the kind of man who said ‘I love you’ out loud, but he spent every…
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What Was Driving You Before
I spent the first half of my life chasing what everyone said success looked like, and the second…
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The Year I Lost Everything (And the Parking Lot That Changed It)
When I lost everything at 38 — my business, my marriage, my house, my children — I sat…
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I Wasn’t Worth Much, But I Could Pick Up Trash
When I lost everything at 38 — my business, my marriage, my house, my children — I sat…