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Melinda French Gates’s top career advice: Embrace uncertainty
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3/11/2025
Melinda French Gates told Stanford graduates in 2024 that they should enter moments of transition with a "radical openheartedness."
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The first piece of advice is to enter these moments with radical open-heartedness.
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Most of the time we walk around through life in the thicket of our everyday routine,
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but during the transition we step out of our familiar surroundings into a big wide open space
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where everything is new. And there are two ways to encounter these spaces. You can keep your head
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down and focus on finding the shortest distance possible from one familiar thing to the next,
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or you can find the courage to linger in that liminal space and see what it has to tell you.
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That to me is practicing open-heartedness. I have to admit as a young person I managed
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transitions in the first way. I had a list of goals I wanted to accomplish and as soon as I
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checked one off the list I raced across the clearing to the next one. Because frankly it was
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a lot less scary that way. But as I've gotten older I've learned the value of embracing uncertainty.
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