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Or if you’re doing well in your career but taking time to shift gears, then you can bet on your future self.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
He self funds participation in surfing competitions and has been thankful for his supporters close to home.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Reworking her pieces felt, she writes, like a “soothing exercise, a way to return to a younger self and tinker with her words and assumptions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Releasing updated figures on Tuesday, Zimbabwe's cabinet said 108,366 of its people had come home as of July 18, a majority of them self repatriating.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
As I entered the dark corridor, I felt an irrational surge of anger at my future self, and for the first time it wasn’t because Regan was my partner.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“We often judge our younger selves using knowledge, maturity and resources that we did not possess at the time,” Penberthy says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Winocour has often made films about women balancing their public-facing life with their private selves In 2019’s “Proxima,” Eva Green played an astronaut missing her young daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Mr. Burgis’s emphasis on discussing how to transform from pseudo-selves to solid selves misses a few things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
He just gave them permission to be their true selves.
From Salon ● May 26, 2026
For the first time since leaving Mars, they were back to their old selves.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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