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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

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After receiving his diagnosis in August 2006, Lester went through treatment, worked his way back into the major leagues and pitched—and won—a World Series game. Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring. “Instead, I asked how we get rid of this. I wanted to think positively and look forward.”.

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You’ve taken it to an entirely new high, working around other people, incubation theories, mentoring theories, accelerator theories, fundings, exits, team rooms, the very start up to the very exit point overall. It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. Paradigm shifts have you seen?

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