(To view the March 2018 newsletter where this was first published click here.)
A little while ago a student at my former college called on behalf of the alumni association to solicit donations. In the course of the conversation she asked me if I had any advice for her and after talking with her a little about some ideas I have about how to benefit from education, it occurred to me to say, since she didn’t seem like a self-absorbed psychopath, “trust yourself.” Later, as I reflected on the conversation, it occurred to me that it might have been more helpful to say “trust yourself even after you blow it.” Continue reading →