Wash Your Hair | Howard Godnick | TEDxBergenCommunityCollege

Every person you pass on the street, meet at a cocktail party, see on the news ... every one of them has a backstory of trials and tribulations; tragedies and triumphs; failures and successes. No on escapes it. But each is given one life to live – a life of making choices: will it defeat me, or will I defeat it. Because, if you throw yourself a pity party, your friends will show up, hang around for a while, and then continue their way...and you're left feeling sorry for yourself. And if you go through life with your head up your ass, what you get out of it is...smelly hair. You need to make choices. You need to wash your hair. That "glass is half full” philosophy has guided me through my life, and is the message I've taught and advocated to so many.

Howard O. Godnick is a partner in the New York office of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, where he focuses his practice in the areas of complex securities and commercial litigation, including class actions and corporate control disputes and creditor rights litigation. A magna cum laude graduate of New York Law School, where he graduated first in his class, Howard was honored to receive the school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award for his pro bono work on behalf of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. As lead counsel in McWaters v. FEMA, a class action to secure the temporary housing assistance to which Katrina evacuees were entitled by law, he successfully obtained injunctive relief against FEMA, preventing the agency from evicting tens of thousands of hurricane victims from their federally funded hotel rooms pending determinations on their applications for benefits.

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