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7. Secret #7: Highly effective social impact communicators … build personal and professional legacies that outlive them and their careers

Nate Birt1  
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High Hill, MO, USA
 

Death forces us to reconsider what we value most in life. It’s sneaky like that.

I thought a lot about this as I helped my family clean out my Tennessee grandparents’ farmhouse, a process I mentioned earlier in this book. As we sorted through boxes of old newspaper clippings, family photographs, and quilts, it dawned on me that stuff isn’t a legacy. Rather, those objects recall a ...

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