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Remarkable lives often unfold without a fixed plan
Remarkable lives often unfold without a fixed plan
Collins says he became less convinced by detailed life planning after seeing that many remarkable lives developed through organic and highly unpredictable sequences of events.
- Speaker
- Jim Collins
- Source timestamp
- 27:32
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