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Set A New Standard For Yourself

How can you unlearned negative things you’ve learned in your formative years? Here’s how you can set a new standard for yourself.

Set a new standard for yourself — Photo by Sam Owoyemi on Unsplash

The United States exists as a new world. Social media wasn’t in existence at the time some of us were born. Each inventor of any new product sets a new standard — Madam C. J. Walker, Henry Ford, Steve Job, and others.

Yes, you can too. Set a new standard for yourself.

“As adults, we must examine our parental inheritance and decide what to keep, what to cast off, and what to fix.” — Hara Estroff Marano

“Set a new standard for yourself, your family, and your community” was the title of an essay I wrote to my son a day before he turned 18. I’m contemplating if I need to make the letter public or not.

Meanwhile, a young man here inspires me to use the title for this story.

His story sounds like “I’m dumping my culture.” I inferred the writer meant, “I am setting a new standard for myself, my family, and my community.”

I think the writer emphasizes, “I’ll keep all the amazing things from my background and set fire on the destructive…