Introduction

[We] each live thousands of lives, for each day we become someone slightly different. [We] don’t change in one giant leap, but across a million little steps. The most important step a person can take is always the next one.

—BRANDON SANDERSON

Growth is our default setting.

Astrid Tuminez was born into circumstances that looked like a dead end.1 The sixth of seven children, her family moved when she was two from a remote farming village in the Philippines to the violent slums of the provincial capital, Iloilo City. Her father made $50 per month. When Tuminez was five, her mother left, leaving her fifteen-year-old sister Marley ...

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