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book, I am not the committee type. But

the goals of those committees lit me up,

so that’s what I did.

Finally, pay attention to what you

envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but

it tells the truth. You mostly envy those

who have what you desire. I met my

own envy after some of my former law

school classmates got together and

compared notes on alumni career

tracks. They spoke with admiration

and, yes, jealousy, of a classmate who

argued regularly before the Supreme

Court. At first I felt critical. More power

to that classmate! I thought, congratulating

myself on my magnanimity. Then

I realized that my largesse came cheap,

because I didn’t aspire to argue a case

before the Supreme Court, or to any of

the other accolades of lawyering. When

I asked myself whom I did envy, the answer

came back instantly. My college

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