So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever … - Sheena Iyengar

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People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past.

Sheena Iyengar

So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?

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When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

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Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y. ' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish

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