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The Value of Failing with Suneel Gupta

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

My Mam Is De E

Mam grew up in a refugee camp on the border of pakeston and india. The first book that she read from cover to cover was the biography of henry ford. After reading this biography, she tells herself and everybody around her, i want to be an engineer with ford motor company. It's unlikely, if not impossible. But her parents get behind the dream. They they save every penny, a rupee they had. She gets on a boat, gets to the united states, ands up getting a scholarship to oklahoma state university. Graduates as the only female in her engineering class. Finds her way somehow into a room with a hiring manager and

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