Maya Angelou on Courage and Creativity

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🗓️ 2 May 2013

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Dr. Maya Angelou, renowned author.

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HPR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.1	I'm Allison Beard.
0:34.6	I'm on the phone today with one of America's most beloved writers,
0:38.1	Maya Angelo.
0:39.6	Dr Angelo, thanks so much for joining us.
0:42.3	My pleasure, thank you, Mr. Bier.
0:45.0	So your latest book is about your mother.
0:47.1	What were the most important lessons she taught you?
0:49.2	Well, I don't know if I can select one.
0:55.0	I would say she encouraged me to develop courage.
1:00.0	And she taught me by being courageous herself.
1:05.0	And after years leaving her and I think becoming courageous,
1:11.0	I realized that one isn't born with courage, one develops it, and you develop
1:18.9	it by doing small courageous things in the same way that one wouldn't set out to pick up a
1:26.8	hundred pound bag of rice if that was one's aim the person would be advised to pick up a five pound bag, then a ten
1:35.6	pound, then a twenty pound, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to actually
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