Click Your Fortune #3: Advice for your 16-year-old self - Francis de los Reyes III

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Francis de los Reyes III: Professor, Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Deena Gornick: Executive Coach
Jennifer Indovina: TED Fellow; CEO, Tenrehte Technologies
Daniel Suarez: TED Speaker; Author; Senior Systems Analyst

I would say to my 16-year-old self,

"Just trust that it will work out.

I think, trust that if you keep doing what you're doing,

have the confidence that the future will be fine."

I think it's something

that most 16-year-olds of today need to hear

is that it's going to be okay,

just, you know, strive for excellence,

and try to do good,

and it's going to work out.

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