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Unlearning & ambition
5 questions on this theme, in the order the bank holds them. Each has its own page, where answers quoted from published interviews carry their source and members' answers are kept apart from them.
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What working assumption from your first decade did you eventually have to unlearn — and what belief replaced it?
If you replayed the last ten years with the same decisions but less anger, what would still have been worth the fight?
What ambition did you pursue because it was legible to others, and what did you quietly abandon once it was yours alone to judge?
What skill looked like a waste of time for years and later became the hinge everything turned on?
What did you put on hold for years, and what finally made you pick it up again — or decide not to?