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#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What Does It Mean to Be a Professional?

"I love being an amateur at some things. Don't sell your hobbies for you," she says. "A professional makes a promise and then keeps the promise, whether or not they feel like it." The phrase that enabled me to be an author came to me in the shower, right? But it didn't come to me te shower accidentally. Went into the shower, and i said, i'm going to stay in the shower until i have a name for this thing we do here".

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