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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

53 answers answered between 2001 and 2025 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Charlie Munger Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗
Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
silver bullet is probably incentives. I think that if corporate America really said, "you're not going to get your full bonus if you don't have a diverse team working for you," I think we'd see some changes, really, really fast.
Recorded Sharon Epperson, Inclusion in Action: CNBC Opportunity Forum, 18 March 2021 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 23 April 2023 source ↗

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