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Remember that you must make the driving force in your life, love.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz

West Chester University Commencement 2011, 2011

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Oz placed this as his number one tip — literally the most important of his ten pieces of advice, saved for last in a countdown format. After addressing productivity, expertise, systems, mentorship, passion, relationships, health, and presence, he named love as the force that should animate and drive everything else. The simplicity of the advice belied its radical implication: in a culture that prizes achievement, status, and wealth as the primary drivers of a successful life, Oz was arguing that love — for people, for work, for life itself — should be the organizing principle. Not ambition, not fear of failure, not competitive drive, but love. Coming from someone who had achieved extraordinary success in both medicine and media, the prioritization of love over professional achievement carried particular weight. It suggested that all his other accomplishments were meaningful only insofar as they were driven by and contributed to love in its broadest sense.

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