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Michelle Obama: Your story with highs and lows, what seems so ordinary and seems like nothing to you, is your power.
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Michelle Obama: Get back on what track? It's a whole new track. It's not goin' back. You know it's all different, and it's different forever. So it's not getting back on track but its creating my next track... I'm doing what you're doing. I'm figuring out, "What do I want to do? What do I care about?" And it takes time to process your life and figure out what it all means. So little of who I am happened in those eight years. So much more of who I was happened before."
[regarding a student's question about having her career/life interrupted by her husband becoming president]
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Michelle Obama: We focus too much on "stats" and not "story." Stats are like, "What college are you from?" But your story is like, "What was your grandfather like?" "Who was your favorite relative and why?"
High School Student Shayla Allen: What advice would you give to someone who's trying to avoid becoming just a "stat"? Like when you go to college, you're not just the kid with the 3.0 GPA or when you're applying for jobs, you're not just that person who graduated at the top of her class. How do you avoid becoming just a number?
Michelle Obama: I think what makes you more than a stat is once you see yourself - you see yourself as more than a stat and you start thinking about, who are you? What do you care about? What brings you joy? I hope my story urges you to see the power of your story. And to own that.
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