I've Been Working My Ass Off All Day. I Get One Thing Wrong.

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"I really hate being wrong, really hate it. I don't think anybody is like, I would love being wrong," she said. "If we could get past that, we get to the fact that the criticism was a gift of trust and of the belief that that what is most important to us is not control, but doing our best." She taught apologies in her third grade class.

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.

2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.

3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.

4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”

5. What a mother’s job really is.

About Celeste:

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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