She grew up listening to Dyer’s self-help audio tapes and credits his mantras as contributing to her success. The personal-development guru and motivational speaker came into her life at 16, when she had recently seen a close friend run down by a car and her parents had separated. At that point Bl
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What she learned most from Dyer was how to think productively and process life in a way that allowed her to stay focused on becoming her best self. When she was in high school, Blakely played Dyer’s cassettes on repeat in her car.
The best advice she got, Lee said, came from Marissa Mayer when Lee considering taking a job at Google. Mayer said her own favorite choices had come when she followed the more difficult road. “’Are you learning, are you growing, are you challenging yourself?’†Lee recalled Mayer asking. “I always define my career in terms of that.â€
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