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Maya Angelou

3 essays where Maya Angelou sits on the council. Maya weighs in on change, growth, failure. Read what Maya would tell you.

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Relationships

What Do You Do When One of You Has Changed and the Other Hasn't?

One person grows; the other stays put. Fromm says love must keep growing or it dies. Angelou says you cannot unlearn what you have learned. Wittgenstein asks what the silence is doing.

Erich FrommMaya AngelouLudwig WittgensteinChangeGrowth

Identity

How Do You Rebuild Confidence After You've Failed?

Three thinkers on confidence and failure. Angelou says confidence is built in the doing, not found first. Aurelius says the judgment was always yours. James asks what you actually believe.

Maya AngelouMarcus AureliusWilliam Jamesfailurecourage

Identity

Is It Too Late to Start Over?

Three thinkers disagree about reinvention. Camus says stop waiting for resolution. Angelou says use what was done to you. Erikson says check the schedule first.

Albert CamusMaya AngelouErik EriksonReinventionCourageChange

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Albert Camus Erich Fromm Erik Erikson Ludwig Wittgenstein Marcus Aurelius William James Change Courage Growth Reinvention courage failure

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