Who, or what, was your most important teacher?

Rikke Toft Nørgård: As a child, it was nature, the sun, the earth, my family and the farm where I grew up. As a tween, it was stacks and stacks of books, comics, music and my Commodore 64, and as a young person, it was poetry, photography and the people who believed in me as a person.

What was your most important lesson?

Rikke Toft Nørgård: You don’t need to have a plan for your future as long as you are able to follow your heart and have faith in the future – The heart might change its mind multiple times and the future might be unexpected – And the future and your heart might take you to unexpected places. But those places will have meaning and value – As long as your future has a wide horizon and not a narrow path. Or, put in more ‘nihilistic’ terms – Nothing matters (that much) besides living a life worth living and having fun along the way…and you are the only one that gets to decide what that means and how that looks for you.

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