Click Your Fortune #2: Advice for your 16-year-old self - Sandra Aamodt

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Click Your Fortune is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style series that literally feeds questions from students to knowledgeable experts around the world. This intro video explains it all: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/click-your-fortune-episode-2

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Adital Ela: Sustainability Designer
Sandra Aamodt: Neuroscientist; Author
John Werner: Leadership Team, Citizen Schools; Research Scientist, MIT
Alessandro Centrone: Vice President of Sales & Distribution, Steelcase Inc.

What advice would you give to your 16-year-old self?

It is hugely helpful to love what you do

and to do something that you're interested enough in

that you can keep doing it forever

and not get bored with it.

But even things that you really love

are going to have hard, weird, lost moments

as you go through.

And so it's important to just,

as I said before,

just keep moving

and get through those moments

and realize that everybody has them.

And it's not because there's something the matter with you,

but just because you're doing something hard

and hard things are hard sometimes

but still worth doing.

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