Life
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Life
In July 2017, a year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote the following letter to her young daughters.
Poem: Small Kindnesses (Published 2019)
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: People with really high expectations have very low resilience
youtube.comPeople with high expectations have very low resilience
Greatness doesn’t come from intelligence.
Great comes from having character and a strong character is informed by deep suffering.
Perfectionism often wears the mask of high standards , ambition , discipline. It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about the pursuit of excellence but the terror of being perceived as inadequate.
perfectionism is a form of shame
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona,
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Bad shit is always gonna happen. It’s how you respond to it that matters.