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____, my name is Laura Thompson, and I’m a guidance counselor at the local college.

I also have a social media channel where I give advice to ____ students like you.

Today I’d like to talk to ____ about two things that I hope will inspire you.

____ me start by asking you a question.

Have you ever asked ____ whether you made a good impression on someone you just met?

In ____, most people believe they make a worse impression than they actually do.

Researchers ____ an experiment where students were paired up for five-minute ice breaking conversations.

They were ____ asked to rate how much they liked their partners.

Additionally, ____ asked participants if they thought their partners liked them.

Most participants’ estimations of their ____’ responses were pessimistic, which were opposite to the real responses.

It turns ____ that participants do not make bad impressions but make better impressions than they think.

The researchers coined a new term, the “liking gap,” for this difference in perception or the mismatch between how we perceive ourselves and what ____ actually think of us.

How is this helpful for ____?

We ____ underestimate ourselves based on our assumption of how others might judge us.

In other words, our fixed attitudes may prevent us from ____ our true potential.

Don’t worry about the impression you ____ you make on people; chances are you can be confident that the impression you make is just fine.

The second point I want to ____ today is about thinking that your personality is fixed.

Many people believe that their personality falls into a specific category and often blame their weaknesses or failures on their ____ type.

For example, they may say they ____ do something because they aren’t that kind of person.

However, personality ____ are neither absolute nor permanent.

____ to remember yourself from ten years ago.

____ was your favorite singer?

What did you hope to ____ when you grow up?

Do you feel the ____ way now?

What will your answers be 10 years ____ now?

I bet ____ don’t know.

Just like your likes and future dreams ____ changing, so do you.

If you ____ to behave differently and make needed changes, your personality will also change.

People are predictable and consistent ____ time only because they choose to be, so don’t limit yourself to a certain type.

Start crafting the person ____ want to become today.

Hello, everyone! Thank you for your warm ____.

It’s good to be back home, but I’m visiting you today not to perform but to talk to you ____ my life as a musician.

Last year, after 20 ____ of hard work, I finally signed my first record company contract.

I’d like to tell you a hopeful story and give some insight into the hard ____ that I had to put in.

Look at this picture of ____ The Old Guitarist behind me.

My ____ was a classical guitarist, and on my 13th birthday, he gave me this picture and a new guitar.

After he passed away, I hung it up in my room as a reminder of his love for ____.

I wasn’t a ____ genius, but I was better than most.

I was ____ at school festivals, and I thought I was born to be a musician.

But things were far ____ easy.

In college, I had to compete with classmates ____ were definitely more capable than I was.

I don’t ____ remember how many contests I went to and came up short.

I kept failing no ____ how hard I tried.

It seemed like every disappointment ____ me lose hope more and more.

I wanted to ____ up.

The funny thing was whenever anyone asked me to ____ a song for them, I would be so happy.

Although my dream was to record an album, the ____ was I probably wouldn’t make it.

Then one day, I looked at the picture of The Old Guitarist on my ____.

I suddenly remembered ____ my grandfather had told me about Picasso: only a tiny fraction of the thousands of artworks he created during his lifetime are recognized by the public.

Then I thought of my grandfather and how he loved playing, ____ his art his entire life, even without fame.

I realized the only way to become an old guitarist ____ him was to keep playing.

The happy ending to this story is that after having sent my recordings to countless producers, I finally found one ____ was eager to work with me.

____ thing led to another, and I finally signed a record deal.

Opportunities only come to ____ who are prepared.

I had spent years performing on unknown streets and writing songs no one ____.

The difficulties I faced were part of my ____.

If you love something, ____ trying.

Someday an opportunity may come knocking at your ____, and you have to be ready to welcome it.