I learned from him then, for the first time, that he had attended every one of my high school JV and varsity games, even when I was the last man on the bench and didn’t get a minutes’s worth of playing time. He told me he had sat up in the back behind our bench where I’d be sure not to see him. I asked him why he did that and he told me he wanted

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I just believe in it. Five words that sum up the power of a dream and the gift it gives you: a rock-solid core of belief. When you are doing something for a reason, and when you truly believe in that purpose, then there is almost nothing you will allow to stop you. You will keep trying, keep negotiating, keep experimenting and enduring failure to

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But it is the coming generations who have the most to gain. The most important gifts we can give our children are the confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job. They will need to see firsthand—through their own experiences of developing abilities they thought were beyond them—that they

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