March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 55m
English
book
Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, and Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond
by Mark Walton
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chapter tenThe Road to Reinvention
Success Story: Rita K. Spina
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead wherethere is no path and leave a trail.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
She was always ahead of the curve.
Long before unhappy suburban housewives started divorcing their husbands, Rita K. Spina did just that. Years before single moms commonly headed households, Rita raised four children on her own.
Decades before many women attended college, she earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD. And way before the male-dominated New York psychology world had seen anything like her, Rita launched a long, successful career as a clinical practitioner and expert in the field.
“I know I’m a risk taker,” she explained. “I’ve always needed to do things that nobody else would ...
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