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Addictions, Extreme Excellence, and Total Conversion

The Catholic Gentleman

CHAPTER

How to Struggle for Achievement

David Cruz: God's ways are not our ways. And I think that openness to him and that openness to doing his will is something that we as men have to turn to every day. When he was about five years old, my mom said, David, do you want to, I'll give you five cents for every dandelion that you pull up with this tool in the front yard? "I filled literally like five or six garbage bags full of dandelions. Five cents each, like that's pretty good" He says when he was learning how to play guitar, but listen to John Mayer or something, i'd be like, I'll learn that better than he can.

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