In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

长远来看，我们塑造了自己的人生、塑造了我们自己。

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Like it or not, our families shape our lives and make us what we are.

不管喜欢与否，我们的家庭塑造我们的生活并铸就我们的个性。

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“Do not conform …” How often do we let other people shape our lives?

“不要效法……” 我们是否经常让他人来改变我们的生活？

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These stories, the stories we hear from earliest childhood on, shape us in some very meaningful sense for the rest of our lives.

这些故事，我们从小听到大的故事，形塑了一些我们一生,最有意义的观念。

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And insofar as we care about the overall shape of our lives, we might worry about wanting it to have the right shape overall.

既然我们在乎生命曲线的整体形状，我们可能会想得到正确的整体形状。

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Now, that being the case, we have to worry then that because of the unpredictability of death that our lives may not have the ideal shape.

既然是这样，那么我们会变得担心起来,由于存在死亡的不可预见性,我们的生命线可能不会是理想的形状。

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Ultimately however, as much as we may try to avoid it, we must live with uncertainty and grapple with an array of probabilities and ambiguities in our relationships, our health, our careers and business, and in the daily choices we make that shape our lives.

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Potentially high impact startups, new technologies and the most innovative of sustainable businesses will no longer have to fall by the sidelines, but now will have more of a fighting chance to grow into meaningful and ongoing businesses that will shape the very way we experience our lives.

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