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GEORGE E. KING

14 MARCH 2013

A RECIPE FOR SHAMELESS,

CONSTRUCTIVE SELF-PROMOTION

(OR HOW TO SUCCEED IN SPITE OF

YOURSELF)

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Only you can do it.

Dont model the success of others.

Your success comes in only one sizeyours.

Goals changedont be surprised if yours do

The route to your success is not setenjoy t

SUCCESS IS PERSONAL.

HOW DO YOU DEFINE IT?

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Give up? Cover it up? Learn from it?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are lookstarsOscar Wilde

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Tnot; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people wGenius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Ewill not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistencedetermination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge

EXPECT TO FAILEVERYONE DOES

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Live

Love

Laugh

Listen

Learn

Leave

WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME

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Living or existing?

Sharing or hoarding?

Risk or no risk?

LIVE FOR SOMETHING FAR MORE THAN

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You know you're in love when you can't fall

because reality is finally better than your dre

Dr. Seuss

LOVE

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Work puts food on the table.

Laughter put cheer in your soul.

LAUGH

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What you see and what you hear depends a

deal on where you are standing. It also depe

what sort of person you are. C.S. Lewis

LISTEN

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To really learn, you first need to teach.

LEARN

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All things are subject to interpretation. Whicheverinterpretation prevails at a given time is a function of not truth. Nietzsche

There are things known and there are things unknowbetween are the doors of perception. - Aldous Huxley

Perception is not Reality. Reality is Reality. Perceptiomeasure of our ignorance on any given subjectand changes as we learn. George King

REALITY AND PERCEPTION

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Form your networkkeep track of contacts

Learn history

Help whenever you can

Learn to communicate

To really learnteach

Take the risk.

A FEW SUGGESTIONS

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Literature for most careers goes back 50 to 1

What worked is important.

Why something failed is priceless.

Everything you need to know about success

contained in your failures. Everything. author u

LEARNING LESSONS

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Listen to the stories of others

Learn

Know your historythat is your initial foundation

For your career - READ THE LITERATURE!

Learn methods but not limits. Dont let mistakes hold you back.

LISTEN & LEARN

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There is always a way. Nothing is impossible.

There is always a better way. Anything can be improv

Necessity is only a relative of Invention; Desperation

mother. (True creativity begins when hope is all you

Non-innovators ask permission. Innovators might as

forgiveness after the first few mistakesbut, dont c

INNOVATEA FEW SIMPLE RULES

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The brick walls are there for a reason. The b

walls are not there to keep us out. The brick

there to give us a chance to show how badly

something. Because the brick walls are there

the people who dont want it badly enough. there to stop the other people.

Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

CONSIDER THE LIMITS, BUT GENERALLY IGNOR

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We all die. The goal is not to live forever, the

to create something that will. - Chuck Palchniuk

LEAVE

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