A Grocery List For Graduating Engineers

From Denise Shekerjian in Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas Are Born:

1. Find your talent.
2. Commit to it and make it shine.
3. Don't be afraid of risk.  Or even failure, which if seen in its proper light, brings insight and opportunity.
4. Find courage by looking to something stronger and better than your puny vulnerable self.
5. No lusting after quick resolutions.  Relax.  Stay loose.
6. Get to know yourself; understand your needs and the specific conditions you favor,
7. Respect, too, your culture.  We can't, any of us, escape the twentieth century [or 21st - or can we?].  It's tucked up around our collective chin as snugly and as firmly as the bedsheet.
8. Then, finally, break free from the seductive pull of book learning and research and the million other preparatory steps that could delay for the entire span of life and immerse yourself in the doing.