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This post titled “The Race is Long” by Charlie O’Donnell couldn’t have come at a more opportune time for the Class of 2011, myself included. My peers and I have all just settled into new jobs, trying to jump-start careers and looking to fit in this crazy city as an adult — and we’re all at a point where we’ve had a couple of stumbles since graduating in May. 

For those of you too lazy to click-through (personal favourites have been highlighted):

1. You are still standing. 
2. What you do over the course of your career and, more importantly, over the course of your life, far outweighs a single play, game, deal, etc. 
3. How hard you work after failure will determine your character—not that you failed. 
4. Love inspires others to be the best people possible. Hate weakens people and makes them shallow. People can never hate as much as other people can love—so hate will always lose and eventually go away. 
5. The idea of giving up and walking away never really enters your mind if you are doing something you truly love. 
6. If you are not open to learning from failure, your experience will be a missed opportunity. 
7. You will absolutely get another chance. 
8. All of the people who know how hard you worked to get to the point where what you did even mattered at all—they’ll remember your effort and bet on you again because of it. 
9. Your real life results as a person matter more than your Google results. 
10. There were tons of factors that led to your efforts even mattering—to think that the results simply came down to you is naive. There’s always a bigger picture to keep in mind.

So true, even a year and seven months out for me.