Growth Mindset Tip #35 - The Wisdom of Maya Angelou

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When someone shows you who they are, do you actually believe them?

Tip #35 in my year-long series of lessons from his last bad day comes straight from Maya Angelou.

September is my birthday month - go Virgos!

All month the tips center on poetry, starting with the poet whose words already open his other series, A Perfectly Imperfect Union: "We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike."

But I speak to a different Maya Angelou line here, one she gave Oprah in 1997: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Not as a license to write people off, but as an invitation to trade wishful thinking for acceptance, hold first impressions loosely, and then decide who belongs in your peloton.

Whose first impression did you choose to believe or not believe?

Drop it in the comments, and share this one with someone building their own Toll House cookie recipe for a meaningful life.

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