Caroline Adams Miller
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Yeah. It was like being drunk all the time and I don't drink. I haven't had a drink in 40 years, but I just felt drunk. I would call my husband at the end of every day. So it was like five days or three full days every single month. And I remember I couldn't speak. And the only analogy I could come up with is I was an unformatted computer disc that had too much information on it. My brain
hurt all the time. And I love school. I love school. I didn't care about my grades. I love school. And this spoke to me. This informed my practice as an executive coach because there was so much research. There was like Gosh, my coaching can now have an evidence-based to it because back then it didn't. Coaching was the wild west. But talk about brilliant people.
hurt all the time. And I love school. I love school. I didn't care about my grades. I love school. And this spoke to me. This informed my practice as an executive coach because there was so much research. There was like Gosh, my coaching can now have an evidence-based to it because back then it didn't. Coaching was the wild west. But talk about brilliant people.
hurt all the time. And I love school. I love school. I didn't care about my grades. I love school. And this spoke to me. This informed my practice as an executive coach because there was so much research. There was like Gosh, my coaching can now have an evidence-based to it because back then it didn't. Coaching was the wild west. But talk about brilliant people.
Chris Peterson wasn't just brilliant. He was funny and Marty is brilliant. And so Sonya Lubomirsky and Barbara Fredrickson have become my friends. Angela Duckworth was not one of my instructors. She was doing her PhD work. And I think I was the first mass market book to put her new groundbreaking work on grit, which she had just done under Marty.
Chris Peterson wasn't just brilliant. He was funny and Marty is brilliant. And so Sonya Lubomirsky and Barbara Fredrickson have become my friends. Angela Duckworth was not one of my instructors. She was doing her PhD work. And I think I was the first mass market book to put her new groundbreaking work on grit, which she had just done under Marty.
Chris Peterson wasn't just brilliant. He was funny and Marty is brilliant. And so Sonya Lubomirsky and Barbara Fredrickson have become my friends. Angela Duckworth was not one of my instructors. She was doing her PhD work. And I think I was the first mass market book to put her new groundbreaking work on grit, which she had just done under Marty.
She became an instructor later in the program, but not my year. I just got to know her because of her research on grit and the West Point research. So it was life changing and it was life changing in some surprising ways. It changed my profession. It changed me as a human because after you hear things like the number one strength of happy people is gratitude.
She became an instructor later in the program, but not my year. I just got to know her because of her research on grit and the West Point research. So it was life changing and it was life changing in some surprising ways. It changed my profession. It changed me as a human because after you hear things like the number one strength of happy people is gratitude.
She became an instructor later in the program, but not my year. I just got to know her because of her research on grit and the West Point research. So it was life changing and it was life changing in some surprising ways. It changed my profession. It changed me as a human because after you hear things like the number one strength of happy people is gratitude.
And you look at the via character strengths and you look for where's gratitude. Maybe it's not in the top five. Maybe it's not even the top 10. You pay attention and you can't forget the fact that gratitude is closely linked to a flourishing life. So you hear these things. It's a minute past midnight. You can't go back and live that life anymore that you lived before.
And you look at the via character strengths and you look for where's gratitude. Maybe it's not in the top five. Maybe it's not even the top 10. You pay attention and you can't forget the fact that gratitude is closely linked to a flourishing life. So you hear these things. It's a minute past midnight. You can't go back and live that life anymore that you lived before.
And you look at the via character strengths and you look for where's gratitude. Maybe it's not in the top five. Maybe it's not even the top 10. You pay attention and you can't forget the fact that gratitude is closely linked to a flourishing life. So you hear these things. It's a minute past midnight. You can't go back and live that life anymore that you lived before.
So you come out of this master's program. I think fundamentally altered as a human being. And I don't know of any master's program anywhere that I've ever heard of where you don't just come in and learn something. You change as a human being. And I changed as a mother. I changed as a wife, as a sister, as a daughter, as a friend. I'm not the same person I was before 2005.
So you come out of this master's program. I think fundamentally altered as a human being. And I don't know of any master's program anywhere that I've ever heard of where you don't just come in and learn something. You change as a human being. And I changed as a mother. I changed as a wife, as a sister, as a daughter, as a friend. I'm not the same person I was before 2005.
So you come out of this master's program. I think fundamentally altered as a human being. And I don't know of any master's program anywhere that I've ever heard of where you don't just come in and learn something. You change as a human being. And I changed as a mother. I changed as a wife, as a sister, as a daughter, as a friend. I'm not the same person I was before 2005.
And I think a lot of people have that reaction.
And I think a lot of people have that reaction.
And I think a lot of people have that reaction.
That's such a good question. I'm sorry I didn't address that in the second part of that last question. First of all, it's never too late. You just have to have curiosity. And also one of the five character strengths, I use the VIA character strength. I don't use anything else in my work and that's free. It's viacharacter.org.