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Embracing The Fall with Carla Hall

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

Are You Happy? Not to Be Rich?

I tell people my stubbornness protects me. My grandmother's advice to me, she said, it is your job to be happy, not to be rich. So ever since I was a child, what that means to me is I'm the only person who can really judge my happiness. In that job, in that accounting job, I was incredibly unhappy. What do you have to do? Move. And so I own that. Failure doesn't make me unhappy. Stand in a place where I'm not happy makes me miserable. That I will not do.

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