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| Introduction: Obvious Questions Don't Have Obvious Answers: From Your Fears Come Misconceptions | |
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| That Sense of "Rightness" | |
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| An Ordinary Guy: Even the Destined Struggle | |
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| Have You Looked Under the Bed?: Ignoring the Obvious | |
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| Hunted by Her Cause: Learning from Hard Times | |
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| Synchronicity or Not: Is There Meaning in Coincidence? | |
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| The Dharma Adviser: Being vs. Doing | |
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| Isn't It Clear!? Waiting for Clarity | |
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| I Belong to You: Is It Self-Serving to do What You Enjoy? | |
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| The Brain Candy Generation: Stimulation/Intensity vs. Significance/Fulfillment | |
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| Parasite Entrepreneurism: Finding Your Story | |
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| Lacking an Off Switch: Always Knew It | |
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| In Another Class | |
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| The Ungrateful Soldier: Torn Between Classes | |
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| The Umbrella of Freedom: Anyone Can Find This Important | |
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| A College Man: From Working Class to Educated Class | |
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| The Diver Who Loved to Read: Neither Fight Nor Flight | |
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| Building a Cathedral: The Fear You Don't Belong | |
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| The Casino of the American Economy: It's Supposed to be Hard | |
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| Lady Reads the News: A Good Day Job | |
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| Getting Oily, Then Even: Switch Sides After an Injustice | |
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| Learning Delta Pride: The Fear That Our Choices Are Irreversible | |
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| Temptations vs. Aspirations | |
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| A Billion Is Chump Change: Is Turning Down the Money Stupid or Brave? | |
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| That Magical Thing: Overcoming the Stigma That This Isn't Important | |
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| The Lockbox Fantasy: Getting Rich Changes You | |
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| A Tour of the Country: This, Then That | |
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| After a Brief Period of Experimentation: Fear of Saying No | |
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| There's More to Motherhood than Baking Cookies: Never Give Up | |
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| The Chemical Engineer Who Lacked a Chemical: What's Real? | |
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| Destination vs. Journey? | |
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| Guidance, Navigation, and Control: Three Lessons from One Who's Stayed Put | |
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| The Boom Wrangler Has Many Reasons to Live: Change, for Some, Keeps Them Alive | |
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| The Phi Beta Slacker Dances for Herself: Be Your Own Audience | |
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| The Runway Gypsy: Back to Reality | |
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| Know Thyself | |
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| New Person, Same Job? A Different Kind of Hard Work | |
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| My New Start-Up: How the Past Colors Perception | |
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| Dropping the Watermelon: The Practical Way to Pursue the Impractical | |
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| The Toner Queen Unmasks Herself: The Resume "Me" vs. the Work-in-Progress "Me" | |
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| The Once-Angry Minister: A New Kind of Success Story | |
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| Changes of Scenery | |
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| Ambition in Neutral: Deemphasizing the Question in Order to Answer It | |
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| Nobody Taught Me: The Benefit of Being Around Like-Minded People | |
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| The Romantic Depressive: Enjoying People | |
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| On Planet Hug: Finding Your People | |
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| Uncomfortable Is Good: Rehearsing for Life's Improvisation | |
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| Success Formula: Giving Up That It's about You | |
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| Trafficking in Extremes: The Adventure of Working Abroad | |
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| Relationships and Family | |
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| The Twin Who Wanted to Be Unique: Struggling to Satisfy Dual Careers | |
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| H = P [greater than sign] J: When Paths Begin to Part | |
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| Ski Bums: Working with Your Spouse | |
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| Where Fears Hide: This is Your Own Responsibility | |
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| The Lottery Winner: Resisting Parents' Pressure | |
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| The Monkey Law: Finding Inspiration in Our Ancestry | |
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| A Burial with Pinstripes: Fears are Inherited, Too | |
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| Accepting a Gift: Will I Have to Put My Aspirations Aside? | |
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| The Mechanic Gives 100 Percent: Children Help You Remember What's Important | |
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| A Fragile Blow: The Hardest Things Are the Most Liberating | |
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| The Appropriate Time Frame | |
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| Out of My Mind: When Is It Too Late to Start Over? | |
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| Contribution X: Keep in Mind Even What You Can't Define | |
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| Twenty Thousand Lives a Year: Business is a Tool to Support What You Believe | |
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| Magic Powers: No Big Picture Is Too Big | |
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| Closing Remarks: All Stories Are Unique | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Reading Group Guide | |