# Professor Michael Pollack is profiled and explains how surviving a terror attack in Mumbai has influenced his life and work

1 Faculty News November 28, 2018 ![New York Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031743.jpg?itok=0h5FlsRq)>

Excerpt from the [The New York Post](https://nypost.com/2018/11/28/mumbai-terror-attack-survivor-im-thankful-each-and-every-day/) -- "'I really press my students in my entrepreneurship class to get over their fears and really do something,' says Pollack. 'In ethical philosophy, I tell them to contemplate owning their time and not living their parents’ dreams, but living their own.'"

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