Alexis Ohanian
Co-founder of Reddit; founder of Seven Seven Six
Thank goodness, too. Because that was a long-term investment in myself.
What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
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What are you unwilling to optimise?
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Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Relationships
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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Time & hindsight
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What are you most proud of?
Identity & self
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
I think it was 2009/2010; I didn't score many headed goals. I spent about ten months practising after training, just working on my heading and then I went on a run of scoring 15 headed goals in a row.
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Elizabeth Iro
Nurse and midwife; first Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization, 2017–2022
And like most nurses, I found myself running into certain frustrations. I started to look for ways to make a better argument, to advocate more convincingly for the people under my care. That led me to read up on civil law and produce a few research papers, and then I did a master’s degree in health science and also an MBA. All of that allowed me to see other sides of the problem. It also showed me how issues affecting nurses could be elevated by approaching ministers and other people in power with sound, evidence-based arguments.
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist, orator, newspaper editor and U.S. diplomat; U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia 1877–1881; U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti 1889–1891
From these remarks it will be evident that, allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put, and which, in both temporal and spiritual affairs, is the true miracle worker. Every one may avail himself of this marvellous power, if he will. There is no royal road to perfection.
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Lecture, delivered repeatedly 1859–1893, Teaching American History, reproducing Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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Alessia Cara
Canadian singer-songwriter
I started going to therapy, which has been really helpful just to get it out. Of course for me as a songwriter, writing helps.
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I think the first real big influence was Colin Harvey [former Everton coach], I went and played for the U19s for Colin when I was 14, and that's really when the tactical part of the game came in.
If you've been picked for your country you've been picked for a reason: because you're good enough. So go there, be yourself, keep doing what you've been doing for your club, and enjoy it.
It was. I just expected more.
With family, that's the main thing. That's why you do things. Being a bit older and seeing my kids grow into teenagers, I'm helping them grow up in life. That's what I'm proud of - that's what I do everything for.
That's what I've trained for, to be a professional footballer, and luckily enough that's what I've become
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