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Hope through action: It isn’t about avoiding failure—it's about working through it.

 "At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you, and you’re going to say, ‘This is it. This is how I end.’ But you can either accept that… or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem… and then you solve the next one… and then the next. And if you solve enough problems, you get to come home."


 

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