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Achieving Success Comes Down to One Thing: Connecting With People

Success

You don’t always have to agree, but if you’re merely open to learning, coachability will take you a long way. I learned to be coachable in my time as an eighth grade science teacher. Your teaching methods, clothes, the booger in your nose during allergy season—all of it. And just like that, my connections grow exponentially.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

Success

Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). But his perseverance as the president of the new managing committee prevailed. Learn the what…?” the editor nearly spat into the phone.

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