Find your Journey - For #CapUChange
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This document provides brief advice on finding your own journey in life, including practicing your whole life, having an open mind, patience, hustling, building relationships, inspiring others, upgrading your heroes, and taking an interdisciplinary approach. It encourages finding what success means for you and having an escape plan.
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Find your Journey - For #CapUChange
- 2. practicing my whole life
- 4. hitching: wide open to YES
- 8. escape plan
- 9. play well w/ others + badges
- 10. build a posse of pals