rarely do they see the turning point that could’ve…

Page 3 rarely do they see the turning point that could’ve taken you in a completely different direction. But it’s at these inflection points at the most important lessons in business and life alert.

— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences) · What it Takes, Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

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The trick of a well-flown life is to make the small ones fast and almost automatically, and to give the few big ones the real process they deserve. And pay special attention to the inflection points — the rare decisions that could send your whole life in a completely different direction — because that is exactly where the deepest lessons of a life are hidden. [Tell here, in your own words, about a single decision that changed the course of your life — and what you understood, only afterward, about how you made it.] — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

And don't wake up at fifty in a career you chose because everyone around you was walking that way — create your own options, lay them out, and pick the path that excites the real you. I got where I did partly on a plain, stubborn drive to make it on my own — call it a dream, call it a need to prove myself — and partly because I paid attention at the turning points, since the most important lessons of a life rarely come on the smooth stretches; they come at the inflection points that could have sent you somewhere else entirely. Here is what I most want you to take. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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