Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
MICHELLE OBAMANow that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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