The Importance of Positive Thinking

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"I was raised primarily almost exclusively by my mom, my parents divorced when I was really young," he says. "She just was constantly encouraging in this type of way that I just felt like I knew what I was there for ... She would always stop and say, don't ever change, you can do everything everybody else can do." He adds: "In retrospect, I'm sure there was a sense of vigilance to make sure that... people might assume I wasn't capable"

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