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I became an expert at taking leaps. Being unafraid to start new things meant that, unlike most people, I was constantly conducting experiments in my personal and professional lives, in both big and small ways. New industries. New hobbies. New technologies. New roles. New people. New side hustles. That’s where I found my superpower, which taught me
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had two babies and bills to pay. “Your cousin Albert told me that, in business, they call this a pivot. But life is filled with them, too. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets.
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Little things don’t have big signs on them
At sixteen, Mike Nichols’s girlfriend’s parents gave him tickets to a Broadway play that turned out to redirect the course of his life. In college, a chance interaction with a cafeteria busboy led to him attending weekly improv workshops, where he soaked up practices and principles of creativity and
“Nothing happened,” he said to me. Except everything happened, I explained to him. In a singular moment, his entire life changed. So, too, did the lives of the sixty people who now worked for him, plus their families, plus the people doing business with him. A moment of frustration and inspiration in a traffic jam had come to define his life.