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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.
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Robert Kaplan argues that the keys to advancement in your career is taking risks, or “playing the game with some degree of abandon.”
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Robert Kaplan advises people to write down the story of their failures in order to make themselves aware of them.
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Mastery is basically a form of intelligence that people reach after years of working in a field, years of practice, experience, some failure.
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