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What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?
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Robert Reich

Economist; U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997

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When I look back at my role as labor secretary, I regret that I didn't fight harder. I mean, inside the meeting rooms in the old executive office building and the cabinet office, and even when I was talking in private to the president - President Clinton, I did try to argue my case, but I feel, in retrospect, I should have argued even more passionately. Maybe I even should have threatened to resign.

Michel Martin, NPR All Things Considered, 1755734400 source ↗

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Geoffrey Hinton Computer scientist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2024
I always thought superintelligence was a long way off and we could worry about it later, and the problem for now is just to make these more intelligent. I wish I'd thought sooner about what was going to happen.
Recorded Adam Smith, Nobel Week in Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 10 September 3200 source ↗
Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.
Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 10 September 0800 source ↗
Freddie Hubbard Jazz trumpeter and composer
I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened.
Recorded Tony Cox, NPR News & Notes, 1228089600 source ↗
Amy Tan Novelist; author of The Joy Luck Club
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people, and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 972691200 source ↗

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