At some point when you’ve tried enough careers and none seems to fit, rather than look for yet another career, you start to think the problem is inside you.

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The stereotype is that domineering parents push their kids to succeed, killing their children’s love for whatever they’re studying. But the opposite was far more common—young people who were given too much leeway by parents afraid of being overbearing, when their children really, needed help in identifying what was important them.

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The same goes for figuring out your place in life. It’s not a puzzle that can be figured out on paper. You have to do something, see if it works, and learn from it.

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… and she’s found that true freedom comes from the confidence she can live within her means, whatever those means may be.

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Americans might have bigger cars and larger grass lawns than the rest of the world, but we certainly aren’t happier, or more content. On that front we’re terrible role models. You’d never follow an American’s prescription for happiness. For the same reason you’d never buy a snow- blower that was made and tasted in Jamaica

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The misconception that our life doesn’t begin until we find an answer, when in fact our failed attempts often establish why we will find our future “answer” so meaningful, i.e contrast to our past.

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