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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.
I'm a snowflake. And so are you. Your children are snowflakes. And so are mine. And those who protest the loudest about not being snowflakes? I can see your six-fold ice crystals from here! Because every person, empirically, is unique.
Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.
