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What does it mean?
Ali emphasizes the importance of personal growth and change over time.
In plain terms
If you do not grow or learn, you waste your life.
What can you take from it?
Always seek to learn and change.

Where it applies

  • career growth
  • aging
  • self-improvement

Putting it to work

  • reflect on progress
  • challenge your views

Questions to consider

  • Have you grown in the last ten years?
  • What stops you from changing?

Another view

Growth is not always linear or easily measured.

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