Emily Kempf
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How do you achieve your highest and best use anyway?Apply yourself to your highest and best use. To Emily this seemed like a foolproof principle on wh
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ich to organize her life. Setting out with her lofty aspirations, Emily chased her highest and best use from New York to London to São Paulo. Established as an expatriate and later, a new mother, in Brazil, adversity plagued her best attempts to make a positive impact. Facing literal and metaphorical threats such as tropical disease, cultural mishaps, and the constant threat of bankruptcy, among others, she struggled with her own relevancy and hit rock bottom. Rising, she humbly, desperately searched for a better way, eventually discovering it in the most unexpected place: the wonderful productivity possible in a childlike state.
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