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# What I wish I’d known when I was a teenager.

 Published by [Mike Desjardins](https://blog.virtusinc.com/virtus-inc-leadership-journal/author/mike-desjardins) on Nov 29, 2009 8:32:01 AM

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[Here is the Core Values experience](http://mikedesjardins.com/2009/11/28/figuring-our-your-core-values/) I speak about in the first part of the video.

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