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I am a recovering rat racer.
Rachel Simmons
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All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.
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Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.
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Instagram rocks. I love it, and so do the youth I work with and study.
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It's not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.
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Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.
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Being jealous of a friend doesn't mean you hate her or wish her ill.
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Oversharing online can make you feel connected to someone in the moment, but when the moment is over, the only thing that has really changed is that you just gave a piece of yourself away.
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When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.
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I realized that I wanted a Rhodes Scholarship, not because I wanted to go to graduate school but because I wanted to win a famous award. Quitting forced me to realize I was on the wrong track and that I had lost touch with who I was and what I cared about.
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Real body satisfaction starts when you learn to see yourself for more than your weight.
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Most of us are destined to be unhappy if we can't accept that we will have moments - or a waist size - that don't match our perfect vision of how things should be.
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