Ray Allenĭon’t ever put yourself in the position to wish you could hop in a time machine.
They took a chance on you, so you owe them your everything to be a success. When you find a mentor or a boss or even a friend - anyone who believes for you, sticks up for you, gives you a job or a reference when you're inexperienced - TLDR: Don't make them regret it. There are going to be people who believe in you and those who won't. Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant. If you know something is wrong, speak up and/or stand up for the people who aren't afraid to speak up. Why? I want a steady paycheck you say, and so you'd rather not tell your boss he's wrong. Please don't ever be one of these people, who either doesn't speak up or doesn't support someone who does speak up, when you know they're actually right. And they never speak up - even when they know something a superior is doing is wrong and hurting the business. If you're neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.Īt work, you'll inevitably notice a lot of "yes men." Yes men just do as they're told. What a quandary, right?įey's suggestion? Ignore them and reallocate all that pent up energy you would've spent hating them to positive energy you use to outperform them. You don't want jerks to get away with holding you back, but you also don't want them to make you miserable. There will always be assholes in the workplace, which is why Tina Fey's quote is so important. Figuring out what you're good at and what you enjoy doing is. Most of the time - unless you want to be a doctor or a lawyer - more school isn't the answer. Some of you may be considering graduate school simply because you have no idea what the hell you want to do with your life. But it turned out in retrospect that my biggest problem was taking the track without thinking really hard about where it was going.”
It was a way to explain to anyone who would ask-to my parents, to my peers, and most of all to myself-that there was no need to worry. “Looking back at my ambition to become a lawyer, it looks less like a plan for the future and more like an alibi for the present. Instead, he almost became a lawyer, but when he didn't get a coveted clerkship, he decided to give up being a lawyer, and instead, he founded PayPal.
They may sometimes even be correct, but often they are justified by nothing except constant repetition.Īt the beginning of Peter Thiel's commencement speech, we learn he almost didn't become the founder of PayPal. Whatever the disappointment is, you must remain hopeful because, after all, hope is what keeps us alive. You may not get that dream job you wanted or your boyfriend might dump you or you might not get that dream job and your boyfriend might dump you simultaneously. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but in life, you're going to face A LOT of disappointments. We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope. You have the power to forget about it, and move the eff on. In this quote, Tupac Shakur is telling us that just because something ends - a job, a relationship, whatever - life still goes on. This is not good because then we begin to believe we are a failure. So many of us overanalyze failures - or what feels like failures - over and over again in our heads. Winfrey reminds us that she was an ordinary person who dared to dream of extraordinary things. How could anyone but a superhero do that, right?
She is an incredibly influential and successful woman and the queen of a multimedia empire. When you think of Oprah Winfrey, you probably think of a freakin' superhero. Oprah WinfreyĬreate the highest, grandest vision possible for your life becuase you become what you believe. Keep an open mind and listen to their suggestions, but don't let them deplete you or even stop you.Īs one of my mentors always says: "You only need one yes." One day, you'll get that "yes," and you'll be so glad you didn't listen to the naysayers. They'll poke holes in your work, your dreams and your ideas - especially when you have little experience and are just starting out. Seth Godin reminds us that the majority of people will try to shoot down our dreams. Just remember it's a learning experience, and the more you practice, the more you'll succeed. That fact alone is why you're going to fail a lot at first. Not only that, when you graduate and step into the real world, you won't have a syllabus or an academic calendar that tells you exactly what you can expect for every day of the year. If you're not failing, then you're either not doing enough, and/or you're not challenging yourself enough. I love this inspirational quote by Michael Jordan because it's easy to forget that the more you do, the more you fail.
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