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• I can push myself and you can push yourself, but competing, we push ourselves a little farther and we bring out our best even if one of us wins and one of us loses. The virtue of competition is that we both get better, not that one does. And that means we have great respect for the opponents, whether we win or whether we lose.

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  Mean, Winning, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

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  Life, Passion, Volunteer

  "What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question". Book by Po Bronson, November 29, 2005.

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• Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

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  Inspirational, Life, Successful

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.131, Random House

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• The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

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  Differences, Discipline, Choices

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• ‎It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

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  Mistake, People, Lessons

  "What Should I Do With My Life?". Book by Po Bronson, February 28, 2013.

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• Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

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  Giving Up, Goal, Path

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• Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot. But they’re both great.

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  Book, Lists, Type

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• Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

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  Children, Keys, Discipline

  Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman (2009). “NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds.

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  Judging, Choices, Risk

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• I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

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  Hard Times, People, Choices

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• A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill.

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  Weekend, Long, People

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• Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.

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  Children, Kids, Media

  Ashley Merryman, Po Bronson (2010). “Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong”, p.39, Random House

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• Testosterone is the hormone of collaboration and competition that, whenever we compete on a team, we collaborate with our teammates. And most of us in our daily life, to the extent that we have to compete with the rat race in the world out there, we're collaborating with other people at the same time. The two are hand in hand.

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  Team, People, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

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  Work, People, Thrive

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• How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

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• You know, kids need to feel like they're not being drowned out by superior competitors and they'll make that connection that, with a little more effort, I can compete. I can be competitive. I can be successful here with a little more effort and application and they learn that themselves. It's not just us telling them how hard you work matters. They need to feel it on their own.

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  Kids, Successful, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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