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S7, Ep2 How to Fail: Malcolm Gladwell
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
The Importance of Being the Best
As a man, it seems like your options are narrowed and you're kind of instructed by society that your choice of options is limited to those things that you could excel at. And then I discovered, it's funny because I think so much about this mediocrity argument, he was at a tiny school full of super artsy kids to be. There's something incredibly liberating. You should be trying a million things, especially the things you're not good at, just to see if there's some wonderful little thing you can extract from the experience. It breaks my heart that it took me this long to learn that lesson.
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