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"6. Relationships > GPAs.* Unless you’re planning on going to graduate school, grades should feel secondary to the process of working with your peers and professors. I would rather you came into my office and to ask me about the artifact on my desk than to fight about .08 points that will mean zippo to your career success. When you show you care about performance more than points, it’s the signal to me—and thus to the future employers I talk to about you—that you’re the kind of person they want on their team."

FRIENDS SHOULD ALWAYS BE YOUR PRIORITY. YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOURSELF OVER A MOUNTAIN OF WORK.

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"8. It’s OK to say “no.” High-achievers want to do it all. Don’t. Despite many examples otherwise, the world wants you to do 15 things well rather than 50 things sloppily."

FIGURING OUT HOW TO SAY NO HAS BEEN A VERY CRUCIAL SKILL FOR ME TO LEARN EVEN IN HIGHSCHOOL, AND I WILL DEFINITELY BE NEEDING TO CARRY THIS THROUGH THE REST OF MY LIFE

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"2. To get plugged in, unplug. Maximize your connections through all of your social media platforms and digital tools. But for meaningful contacts that will help you develop, put down the phone. Look up. Raise your hand. Speak. Ask. Listen."

DON'T BE EMBARRASSED TO ASK QUESTIONS. ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE.

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"Your lifelong goal should be to find worth, or “what matters,” in every job you may have, as opposed to finding work “that matters.”

FIND WHAT REALLY MATTERS TO YOU AND WHAT YOU FIND WORTH IT.

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"High-achievers want to do it all. Don’t. Despite many examples otherwise, the world wants you to do 15 things well rather than 50 things sloppily. High-achievers want to do it all. Don’t. Despite many examples otherwise, the world wants you to do 15 things well rather than 50 things sloppily."

DON'T TRY AND DO TOO MANY THINGS AT ONCE, FOCUS ON WHAT YOU'RE GOOD AT.

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"Your most valuable currency: ideas. We’re in a world where lots of your peers have the same skills you do. The X factor: Who has the better idea? The front end of a project (time spent developing an original idea) is as crucial as the back end (time spent executing it)."

CREATING AND SHARING IDEAS HELPS YOUR CONFIDENCE AND HELPS REACH THE MOST AFFECTIVE SOLUTION FOR THE COMMON GOAL.

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"Despite an initial half-hearted effort to complete correspondence school courses in Africa, I’m proud to say I never did graduate from high school. In fact, dropping out of school was one of the best moves I ever made. My short-term departure from the educational mainstream spurred me to develop my own interests and pursue them over a period of years during which it appeared to others, including my father and his colleagues in academia that I was “failing.”

IT'S OKAY TO TAKE TIME OFF TO FIND,  EXPLORE, EXPERIENCE, LEARN NEW THINGS, OR FIND NEW THINGS TO ACHIEVE WHAT I TRULY ENJOY. OR WANT TO DO WITH MY TIME ON EARTH.

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"In high school, you likely took a foreign language such as Spanish or Chinese or German. Now, expand what it means to speak and work in a new world"

BE OPEN TO OTHER IDEAS, SOME SKILLS YOU NEED IN THE REAL WORLD THAT AREN'T LEARNED BY CHOICE.

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"Despite an initial half-hearted effort to complete correspondence school courses in Africa, I’m proud to say I never did graduate from high school. In fact, dropping out of school was one of the best moves I ever made. My short-term departure from the educational mainstream spurred me to develop my own interests and pursue them over a period of years during which it appeared to others, including my father and his colleagues in academia that I was “failing.”

NO ONE PATH IS CORRECT EVEN IF OTHERS DEEM IT TO BE A FAILURE

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"3. Your most valuable currency: ideas. We’re in a world where lots of your peers have the same skills you do. The X factor: Who has the better idea? The front end of a project (time spent developing an original idea) is as crucial as the back end (time spent executing it)."

YOUR IMAGINATION IS YOUR GREATEST TOOL, DON"T BE AFRAID TO USE IT. TAKE TIME TO GROW YOUR IDEAS SO THAT THEY CAN BE GREAT.

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"To get plugged in, unplug. Maximize your connections through all of your social media platforms and digital tools. But for meaningful contacts that will help you develop, put down the phone. Look up. Raise your hand. Speak. Ask. Listen."

BE ENGAGED. ASK QUESTIONS. IT'S OK TO ASK FOR HELP. DON'T SUFFER IN SILENCE.

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"Learning early in life to persist in an effort ridiculed by others is of great value. Whether a blessing or a curse, most of what I have accomplished in my career was initially deemed doomed to fail. For this reason, I am extremely hesitant to tell would-be entrepreneurs their business ideas won’t work. First of all, who am I to say they won’t and, second, contrary to popular belief, dreamers do not need devil’s advocates. There is no shortage of naysayers in our world."

DON'T LET OTHERS CONVINCE YOU THAT YOU'VE FAILED BEFORE YOU'VE EVEN BEGAN.

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"Find a workout pal. Part of stress management is time management. Part of it is having enough energy to do quality work. While it’s inevitable that you will sometimes eat at the $2.99 buffet and pull all-nighters, you need good food, regular exercise, and lots of sleep. This non-academic priority will improve your academic ones."

HAVING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS WITH FRIENDS AND PEERS CAN MOTIVATE YOU INSPIRE YOU TO DO NEW THINGS AND BE MORE PRODUCTIVE

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"1. Your brain is not your day planner. The life skill you’ll need to master in college is prioritization. That skill develops when you can see what’s coming next month, next week, tomorrow, in 10 minutes, #ohwaitthatpaperisduetoday. With so many moving parts in college, you simply can’t afford to stay unorganized. Students get in academic trouble when they panic. They panic when they don’t prepare. I don’t care what method you use to keep your calendar (app or paper), as long as it’s not a Sharpie mark on your palm.

2. To get plugged in, unplug. Maximize your connections through all of your social media platforms and digital tools. But for meaningful contacts that will help you develop, put down the phone. Look up. Raise your hand. Speak. Ask. Listen."

TRY AND STAY ORGANIZED, UNPLUG AND STAY ACTIVE. STOP BEING INTROVERTED!!

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"The greatest compliment you can receive from a professor, pro, or peer isn’t “great work!” or “that’s perfect!” It’s this: “How in the world did you do that?” Wow us with your creativity, wow us with your ideas, wow us with your execution in ways we can’t imagine. We may not know what goes into your secret sauce, but we do know that we want more of it."

BE YOURSELF. MAKE THE QUALITY OF YOUR WORK YOUR OWN.

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"Unless you’re planning on going to graduate school, grades should feel secondary to the process of working with your peers and professors. When you show you care about performance more than points, it’s the signal to me—and thus to the future employers I talk to about you—that you’re the kind of person they want on their team."

DON'T FORCE YOURSELF TO BE YOUR ABSOLUTE BEST IF IT TAKES AWAY FROM YOU BEING A SOCIAL AND TOLERABLE PERSON.

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"High-achievers want to do it all. Don’t. Despite many examples otherwise, the world wants you to do 15 things well rather than 50 things sloppily."

DONT BITE MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW; PACE YOURSELF AND DO WHAT YOU CAN WELL

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"Successful students had one or more teachers who were mentors and took a real interest in their aspirations, and they had an internship related to what they were learning in school."

BE OUTGOING & MAKE CONNECTIONS