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Squiggly Careers · 2026-04-13 · 30 min · 6,473 words

The Difference Between Working Hard and Getting Better | Big Think

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I don't think mastery happens by accident. We've picked two areas of mastery to focus on. You want to move from your response being a default and we're trying to move from default to decision. And I wondered whether this was more about going from good to great. What do you do when you like respond in a way you don't want to?

And they said that I didn't want to cry. It was not And then and now I'm worried about what you're thinking about me because I'm crying. The failure almost just becomes a a data point for your development. And then know that there will be these mini failures.

And it's sort of what happens in those moments I think then helps you with will you get to the ultimate, ultimate success. You can only truly master one thing. According to Epictetus, I think he was Socrates' friend, or maybe just of that, of that group. I don't know how to say that. He's probably not listening, so it's probably fine.

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