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Genetics shows we are not born as blank pages; much is printed before anyone picks up a pen.

We notice the obstacles we push against far more easily than the advantages that carry us.

For some people, an ordinary life is an extraordinary accomplishment.

I was raised with the notion that, as infants, we enter this world as a blank page. Our parents, family, relatives, friends, society, culture, and religion then begin to write a story on that page.

Genetics has shown us that the blank page is not really blank; many predispositions, dispositions, and vulnerabilities are already printed on it before anyone picks up a pen.

Psychology tells us that no matter what was pre-printed on that page, no matter which forces have written which lines, and no matter what they left between the lines, we can still turn that page.

But some pages are much heavier to turn than others.

The first time I........

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