#onward

Most improved is underrated.

1st place breeds complacency.

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Dan Hicks
Aug 04, 2020
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Seldom has there been an activity where I was naturally talented.

For a long time, I thought — or rather, I allowed — this to mean that I couldn’t be talented at something. Thinking in this way rendered success as a zero-sum, win-lose scenario.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Now 24, I’ve stuck with two hobbies long enough to see things differently, speci…

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