Lynn Calpeter States Importance of Finding a Path and Learning From Mistakes

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At this moment in your life, you don't have to know exactly what it is that you want to be when you grow up, I still wonder do I want to be a teacher or a coach or do I really want to be a CFO or do I want to be an operating leader in a business. Do I ever want to be the CFO of the GE Company, could I ever be. So everyday, you are going to ask yourself those questions. So, don't feel like right now you have to have the answer to that question, it will come and it will evolve and sometimes it will be prescribed and that you will try to influence that path and you'll try to pick things to get to a certain place and other times stuff is just going to fall in your lap and you are going to need to be flexible and go with the flow a little bit, because not everything can be sort of charted out and mapped out precisely. I think every opportunity is a good opportunity. I learned as much from bad situations and maybe even more than I learned from everything coming up rosy. When I got 2.19 at Cornell, I learned a hell of lot more than when I was #3 in my class in high school, obviously. I think a lot of times in a bad situation you kind of pick up and move forward and there's a skill to that and there's a real confidence about that. So, don't worry if you make a mistake or you're in a bad situation, learn from it and move forward.