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Grit (Angela Duckworth)


Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.
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We don't want to watch them grow from amateur to expert. We prefer our excellence fully formed (This is how we justify not trying. "Oh, he's a natural. I'll never compete with that.")
page: 39
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Great things are achieved by those whose thinking is active in one direction
page: 39
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Talent is common; what you invest to develop that talent is the critical final measure of greatness
page: 255
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Oathbringer (Brandon Sanderson)


That a thing is hated is not proof that it's great, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it's not.
page: 1229
tags: greatness