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Rachel Hollis On Learning From The Worst Moments, Measuring Success, And Doing Your Best

The Daily Stoic

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Jimmy Carter's Interview With Admiral Heimann Rickover

Jimmy Carter was interviewing for a job on a nuclear submarine. He's being interviewed by this guy named admiral Heimann Rickover and Rickover asks him did you always do your best? And he goes like No, I didn't always do my best which fundamentally changes his life. It's what propels him into the presidency but also all these other things he he does later Like the presidency by a lot of people's metrics Wasn't a success But to him he was like I was the best president I was capable of being.

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