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From John W. Gardner
Life & Career Lessons 
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Life is the art of drawing
without an eraser.
Never imagine the story is
over.
Life has a lot of chapters.
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We only learn by growing
older, by suffering, by loving,
by bearing with the things
that we can't change, by
taking risks.
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There are people whose clocks
stop at a certain point in
their lives.
Don't be that person. Keep
learning. Stay alive in every
sense of the word until you
fail physically.
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The things you learn in maturity aren't
simple things such as acquiring
information and skills.
You learn not to engage in self-
destructive behaviour. You learn not to
burn up energy in anxiety. You discover
how to manage your tensions. You find
that the world loves talent but pays off
on the character.
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Most people are neither for you nor
against you. They are thinking
about themselves. No matter how
hard you try to please, some people
in this world are not going to love
you, a lesson that is at first
troubling and then really quite
relaxing.
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There are some things you
can't learn from others. You
have to pass through the fire.
You have to have picked up
some mileage and some dents
in your fenders before you
succeed.
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You never conquer the
mountain, You only conquer
yourself.
Deal with the ghosts of the
past, memories of earlier
failures. They prevent progress.
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You may not get rid of all of your hang-
ups, but you need to learn to control
them.
You need to learn the arts of mutual
dependence, meeting the needs of loved
ones and letting yourself need them.
You need to understand your impact on
others.
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We want to believe that there is a
scoring system that tells us when
we've piled up enough points to
count ourselves successful.
But life isn't a mountain that has a
summit, Nor is it, as some suppose, a
riddle that has an answer. Nor a
game that has a final score.
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Everyone wants to be
interesting, but the vitalising
thing is to be interested.
Keep a sense of curiosity.
Discover new things.
Care. Risk failure. Reach out.
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Your identity is what you've committed
yourself to.
It may just mean doing a better job at
whatever you're doing.
There are men and women who make the
world better just by being the kind of
people they are, and that too is a kind of
commitment.
They have the gift of kindness or courage or
loyalty or integrity. 
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Self-preoccupation is a prison, as
every self-absorbed person finally
knows.
Commitments to larger purposes can
get you out of prison.
"Old or young, we're on our last
cruise." Make your life to mean
something.
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Finally, meaning of life?
Meaning is not something you stumble across,
like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a
treasure hunt.
Meaning is something you build into your life.
You build it out of your own past, out of your
affections and loyalties, out of the experience of
humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your
own talent and understanding, out of the things
you believe in, out of the things and people you
love, out of the values for which you are willing
to sacrifice something. 

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