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Learning to Let Our Passions Guide Us
JOHN WU didn’t fit anyone’s stereotype of a Harvard Business School student. He was, for starters, a Baptist minister and, at thirty, had spent his entire career in nonprofit organizations. Even so, John had a clear agenda for what friends saw as his unpredictable decision to come to business school. Steeped in Jungian psychology, John had come to Harvard to explore and develop his “shadow” side—aspects of his self that he had been denying in his life choices.
And just what did he see as “shadow” material? Money seemed to be at the heart of it. John told me that there never was much money in his family, which had moved to Chicago from Taiwan when John was sixteen. His father had never had a job that ...
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