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Advice on Achieving Any Long-Haul Dream

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Self Retardance

You talk about John Keats and this idea of negative capability. And I really like this idea a lot. When you quoted him from a letter that Keats wrote to his brother, George, and he gets to this idea of self reinforcement. So self reinforcement is just being able to, when things aren't going your way or you don't know if things are going to go your way, still be okay with that. Yeah, that's exactly it. It was the idea of being uncertain, being racked by self doubt, but keeping going.

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