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makes people describe her as a “force<strong>of</strong> nature.” She has a happy marriage,two daughters she adores, and her ownconsult<strong>in</strong>g firm that she built fromscratch. She’s rightly proud <strong>of</strong> whatshe’s ac<strong>com</strong>plished <strong>in</strong> life.But she hasn’t always felt so satisfied.<strong>The</strong> year she graduated from highschool, she took a good look at herselfand didn’t like what she saw. Alison isextremely bright, but you couldn’t seethat from her high school transcript.She’d had her heart set on attend<strong>in</strong>g anIvy League school, and had thrown thatchance away.And she knew why. She’d spent highschool socializ<strong>in</strong>g—Alison was <strong>in</strong>volved<strong>in</strong> practically every extracurricularactivity her school had to <strong>of</strong>fer—andthat didn’t leave much time for academics.Partly she blamed her parents,who were so proud <strong>of</strong> their daughter’s349/929

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