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William H. McRaven

출생: November 06, 1955 – Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States

William H. McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and leadership author whose work centers on discipline, resilience, and service. Best known for Make Your Bed, a #1 New York Times bestseller adapted from his widely viewed commencement speech, he also wrote Sea Stories, drawing on decades in special operations leadership.

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William H. McRaven was born on November 6, 1955, in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and moved to San Antonio while still in elementary school, growing up in a military family shaped by his father, a career Air Force officer, and by a mother who encouraged poetry, reading, and writing. An athlete as well as a strong student, he attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, excelled in track, then entered the University of Texas at Austin on a track scholarship, joined Navy ROTC, and earned a journalism degree in 1977. He later completed graduate study at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he helped build the Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict curriculum and sharpened the analytical ideas that would become his first major work. ((https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/?utm_source=openai))

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If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed
-UT Austin Commencement Address
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You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help
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If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers
-UT Austin Commencement Address
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Life is filled with circuses
-UT Austin Commencement Address
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If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment
-UT Austin Commencement Address
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If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope
-UT Austin Commencement Address
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If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell
-UT Austin Commencement Address
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There will always be those who don’t want to hear your convictions. Particularly if they are true
-MIT Commencement Address
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If you do not approach the world with humility, it will find a way to humble you quickly
-MIT Commencement Address
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Batman and Superman are not coming to save the world. It will be up to you
-MIT Commencement Address

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