Melinda French Gates

So I put a lot of pressure on myself.

But ultimately, I went to Duke and I had a time when they had two new brand new computer labs.

I had very good classes.

Yeah, it ended up being fantastic.

She knew where I ended up.

And luckily, luckily she was the only one that saw me that way.

Like my math teacher saw the potential, and boy, was my math teacher phenomenal for me, you know, or my English teacher.

And again, I say this often to people now.

I've seen, you know, using my own experience, the difference –

One person can make in someone else's life.

Absolutely.

And, you know, there's a saying, I think, in the meditation and spiritual community that, you know, our brains are like Teflon and Velcro.

The beautiful things people say are the inspiring things.

They're kind of like Teflon.

If you get a compliment, you kind of like let it go.

But the Velcro is like the sticky ones, the ones that aren't so nice.

Those stick, and you've got to work through those, right?

And I certainly have some of those in my life, too.

Well, I was lucky enough to form the Gates Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And I traveled for over 25 years to so many different countries in Africa and Southeast Asia.