Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Amazing story

In the wonderful video by Bill Whittle several posts below this one, Bill lists imagination, ambition, skill, work ethic, and perseverance as the attributes we can follow to be successful in our endeavors. Breaking Night by Liz Murray is a story about a young person who wrapped all those attributes around herself as she was homeless at age 17, imagined she could start going to school(s) for the first time at age 17, get straight A's, and finish one year of high school per semester, while doing homework, then sleeping for a few hours a night at the top landing on marble floors in hallways of buildings in New York City, using her backpack as a pillow.

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