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TEDxDUSalons: Joe Monteith

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Education

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Just a few years ago, Joe Monteith was an illiterate felon doing time for a drug conviction.  After teaching himself to read in prison, he's now thriving as a business student at the University of Denver.  What does he credit for his success?  The realization that we are in control of our own lives, and that it's not about the situation you are in, but what you do with the situation.  

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