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I'm Keith Simon.

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Who decides what's right and what's wrong in your life?

Who decides, you know, what's the next step you're going to take for your career, for your education, for your relationship, for your kids?

So often, if we're going to be honest, the answer is straightforward.

I decide, or if we're going to be even more honest, the world around us decides.

I'm not trying to spiritualize anything. It's just the simple truth. Whatever our society defines as the quote-unquote normal path, the normal thing, the smart thing, that's just what we do.

Why do people go to high school and then college and then get a job and then get married and then buy a house and then have a kid?

Well, that's just the order that society has given us.

Or maybe that order doesn't fit you. Maybe in your family it's

different. I remember the first time I became aware of the fact that not everybody goes on the same path.

It's when I was in high school and one of my best friends,

he grew up in a family where the norm was to graduate from high school

and then learn a trade and go work it.

Become a car mechanic, work at a factory, go into

construction, something like that. But my friend he wanted to go to college and that

totally broke his family's map and while no no one told him, no you can't do that, he really had no support.

And this was totally different than my family. My parents pushed me to apply for colleges. They walked me through every step of the process. My friend

on the other hand, he had to figure out every single step by himself and on his own. You see, breaking the

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