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I can only tell you that life will happen to you by accidents, unexpected segues, luck. Life brings its gifts from the direction you least expect. But only if you—-as the writer Anton Chekhov remonstrated himself—-Pay Attention. Pay Attention. Pay attention. It falls on you, as it has always fallen on all of us, to invent yourself—passionately, pragmatically.excerpt from Rosemary Sullivan’s speech at my M.Sc convocation
