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151. Is It Okay to Be Average?

No Stupid Questions

CHAPTER

The Importance of Low Expectations

There's this woman Marjorie Hinckley that I love to show, and she said the key to a happy life is low expectations. So if you are a professor and you're like, I don't need to be a Nobel Prize winner, and I don't even need to get decorated in any way, what is the rock star life? "I still think it means you go in and you try to give a better lecture than you gave last time," Duckworth says.

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