CHAPTERimageLIFE TRANSITIONS: ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

“The new thing carries the day, spring supplants winter, the new year sends the old year packing. But there is no antagonism in this. Just succession. As long as our transitions continue, we are successful.”

—WILLIAM BRIDGES, THE WAY OF TRANSITION

“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

—STEVEN JOBS, FOUNDER OF APPLE INC.

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