Follow your dreams.
Confront your fears.
Listen to your heart. Or, as one poster that adorned my middle-school classroom, and likely a thousand others, read,
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. (Extremely corny, but not untrue.)
That’s the thing about advice it’s often general, but when applied specifically, it fits the contours of our lives and offers a way forward. At the close of this staggeringly difficult year, we asked you to share the nuggets of wisdom that carried you through. Find 10 responses below.
On a personal note, in recent months I’ve found myself questioning how deep of a commitment I’m prepared to make to my own creative writing. The best advice I received was along the lines of, “I know you’re afraid, but at some point, you’ve just got to take a leap.” And just like that, I saw a path.