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Talent – how fast we improve in skill – absolutely matters. But effort factors into the calculation twice, not once.
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Any coach or athlete will tell you, consistency of effort over the long run is everything.
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Even more than the effort a gritty person puts in on a single day, what matters is that they wake up the next day, and the next, ready to get on that treadmill and keep going.
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Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.
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With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.
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The only sure thing that comes out of passing judgment on people’s efforts to help is that they won’t help us again.
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When… you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of the situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.
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…when we are discouraged, thinking that we are learning nothing from all our efforts, changes are really taking place within us. We become aware of them long after they have been going on.
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Stopping the tide of pessimism takes effort, but it’s worth it: a negative outlook on the future is not going to help you to be happy at work or anywhere else.
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You can build relationships with coworkers who don’t sit in the same office as you, but it takes commitment and conscious effort.
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