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#517 - Steve Magness - How Elite Performers Build Toughness

Modern Wisdom

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You Can Be Anything You Want, but You Can't Be Everything You Want

People who have fewer other options are actually going to be more boneheaded when it comes to surviving difficulty. For the most part, people are operating somewhere close to their maximum capacity in any case. You can't add more stuff into your life under the presumption that tomorrow you'll just get more done. Your capacity to work now is what you should be working off. It takes so long for you to be able to open up any more time because it is arduous.

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