Don’t be intimidated by anything. In the vast majority of the professions and vocations, the people who succeed are not any cleverer than you. The adult world is not full of gods, just people who have acquired skills and habits that work for them. And specialize—the great human achievement is to specialize as a producer of goods or services so that

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When he is scared of doing something, I must force him to confront his fears and overcome them. Why play this game against my other self? In part to gain self-discipline. And why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the

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When you listen to people who are extremely successful in a given field, you'll hear them pointing to an intuitive understanding of these principles (their grounding) without even realizing it… ‘You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over’ (Richard Branson) ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don't take’ (Wayne G

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