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We foreclose on all kinds of life plans. Once you’ve committed to one, it becomes part of your identity, making it difficult to de-escalate.
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By investing in learning and problem solving, we can develop our passions – and build the skills necessary to do the work and lead the lives we find worthwhile.
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We should be careful to avoid getting too attached to a particular route or even a particular destination. There isn’t one definition of success or one track to happiness.
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It takes humility to reconsider our past commitments, doubt to question our present decisions, and curiosity to reimagine our future plans.
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In every industry worldwide, businesses have to perform at the highest standard, and then get continually better, just to be competitive. Great performance is becoming more valuable.
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Most of what we want to do is hard. That’s life. Encountering problems, discouragement, and disappointment is inevitable.
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…any knowledge about what makes us better at the things we want to do… can be used not just to make us richer but also to make us happier.
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…research doesn’t support the view that extraordinary natural general abilities… are necessary for high achievement.
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…research suggests very strongly… that the link between intelligence and high achievement isn’t nearly as powerful as we commonly suppose.
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…research tells us that intelligence as we usually think of it – a high IQ – is not a prerequisite to extraordinary achievement.
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