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Blog 8 Brooks or Graham ?

Who’s article will stick with me? Which will I remember forever? David Brooks or Barbra Graham? I would have to say Barbara Graham “Confessions of a Quit addict” even though David Brooks has quite a few good points in his article “It’s Not About You” like “Most successful young people don’t look inside and then plan a life. They look outside and find a problem which summons  their life”. And “The purpose in life is not to find yourself it’s to lose yourself” I feel like I would remember Barbara and what she went through every time I feel like quitting or giving up. Thinking of her story will motivate me to keep trying for myself and for the ones I love because if she could go from being homeless “We found ourselves living in a rusty old man on the outskirts of Rome” to a successful single mother with her essay published in a College textbook “So I did what any self respecting jobaholick would do I became a writer” It’s hard to change your life for the better especially if all you’...