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Empowering lessons to recalibrate our thoughts

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As the famous proverb goes, ' If life gives you lemons, make lemonade '. This blog post is related to the message conveyed in this saying by Dale Carnegie. I have been reading few books (non-fiction) recently and came across some really good pieces of advice that I would like to share in this blog post. I am going to pull some excerpts from one of these books. There are some that I can completely relate with and for others it was purely the writer's writing style that captivated my interest.  The three books I read are - The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama,  Lean In  by the Facebook CEO - Sheryl Sandberg and  The Best Advice I Ever Got  - Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric .  I am only going to jot down some pieces of text from the book -  The Best Advice I Ever Got  here in this post. This book is a compendium of short stories from some of the most successful, revered people. For us to realize that even today's best and brightest had hurdles