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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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du Beke
English dancer and TV presenter
Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
Being loved by my family and friends despite my personality.
Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.
Bozoma Saint John
Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix
My daughter. She’s awesome and it’s because I’m awesome. Lol.
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That I might have to do a normal job.
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
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