71. Pressure Is a Privilege

Pressure has a way of getting personal fast. Not the everyday stress of traffic or deadlines, but the kind that makes you wonder if you’re really cut out for the thing you want. I go back to a moment that still blows my mind: at 15 years old, I worked inside the oncology department at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, helping in a cancer research lab and sitting at round tables with doctors. It matured me, stretched me, and also introduced me to high-stakes environments way earlier ...