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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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Despite any obstacles students face, since its creation in 2002, the school has enjoyed impressive outcomes, boasting a college readiness score 27% higher than the city’s in 2019. It’s clear that students should be made aware of viable alternatives, such as vocational training, to traditional higher education.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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Jewel’s mental health organization: Inspiring Children Foundation In 2002, after many years of putting what she learned to action, Jewel co-founded the Inspiring Children Foundation , which provides mental health programming to youth whose financial circumstances are a barrier to access. Because, unless my behavior changed, it didn’t matter.

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

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As a high-school player, she caught the eye of the Tennessee State track and field coach, who recognized her tremendous ability and began training her as a runner. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. At 16, she made the U.S. Olympic team in 1956, winning bronze in the 4×100 relay.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert, “the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism,” according to The Pulitzer Prizes , came through with what was considered flying colors. This article was published in September 2011 and has been updated. Perspective was perhaps his middle name. Grateful, indeed.

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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By Dyson’s side since they met at art school was Deirdre, an illustrator and graphic designer by training (she now custom-designs carpets ). This article was published in November 2013 and has been updated. That’s where the doggedness — and a supportive wife —comes in. You get on to the next thing.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002. I could look into the training programs and research people who are already successful in the field,” she said. This article originally appeared in the January 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. What’s the first thing you could do?”

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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For every 100 [scholarly] journal articles on sadness, there is just one on happiness,” bemoans Martin Seligman, Ph.D., in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. We’re trained as humans to believe that we feel the way we do because of what’s happening in our lives. Acting the Part. Rubin asks. Monkey bars, anyone?

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