Time & hindsight

What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

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Keith Black Neurosurgeon; chair of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
If you want to do something, one of the smartest things that you can do is go find someone that’s done it and to try to get them to show you how they did it, to show you where the potholes are. What are the right steps to get there? ... And not just in terms of where to go to school, but what are the things that are really tough that you have to overcome, and how did you overcome it.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 4 May 2001 source ↗

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