WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE NOT SELF-REFLECTIVE?

As a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Kellogg, I was fortunate to be recruited by several leading firms and soon found myself caught up in the process. What started out as an interesting, fun, and, admittedly, flattering mission to find out what it might be like to work for one of these firms suddenly advanced to a final round of interviews. There I was in New York, in the global headquarters of one of “the” investment banks, and they wanted to hire me. As I was ushered around to speak to various people, I started to get a funny feeling. Did I really belong there? I had a serious girlfriend (now my wife, Julie) at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and I was trying to picture myself ...

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