Can you recreate your life?
You’re not given your résumé with your birth certificate. You create your life and you can recreate it. Navigating your life is like being on the open seas. You can cling close to the known shores or you can set a more exploratory course. Mark Twain used the same metaphor. Reflecting on his own life and achievements he had this advice: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.