You see, soccer didn't make me who I was. I brought who I was to soccer, and I get to bring who I am wherever I go. And guess what? So do you.
In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?
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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
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No big challenge has ever been solved and no lasting improvement has ever been achieved unless people dare to try something different. Dare to think different.
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Abby Wambach
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It took me a while to realize that the internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people. As soon as I did, I changed course and decided to pursue my dreams at Google.
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One thing that I went through and I was able to understand is: It's OK to not be OK. Right? Like nobody's perfect.
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Yeah, I remember exactly that—I was in San Francisco, playing at a beautiful venue, and the siren of an ambulance came through, and it fit so well with the song that I started to play more to draw it out. I like to play in more noisy places so that I can take advantage of all the sounds helping me to build new things. But the one I remember the most is that siren in that venue. Sometimes I’ll play in venues where they’ll have coffee machines or milkshake machines—all these noises that I hated maybe five years ago—I love them now.
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