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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Communities Premium Profile More Post kristie! @kristiehuang Post Reply See new posts Conversation Benjamin Parry @_benjaminparry We are obsessed with "talent" and people that have the "special something". This is just a way of avoiding thinking about what it takes. Excellence is real. There are people that get ahead nine times out of ten. Olympic swimmers, repeat founders, bestsellers... But, if you watch excellent people there is nothing magic about what they do*. It's just the multi-dimensional set of skills, character, and ways of life playing out. To give one example: Fortune 500 CEOs don't have a magic gift — maybe they are more likely to win if they are born in certain countries and have a slightly above average IQ and stamina but nothing otherworldly — instead what they have are: a willingness to have difficult conversations, a set of mental models to read a balanc

Benjamin Parry @_benjaminparry We are obsessed with "talent" and people that have the "special something". This is just a way of avoiding thinking about what it takes. Excellence is real. There are people that get ahead nine times out of ten. Olympic swimmers, repeat founders, bestsellers... But, if you watch excellent people there is nothing magic about what they do*. It's just the multi-dimensional set of skills, character, and ways of life playing out. To give one example: Fortune 500 CEOs don't have a magic gift — maybe they are more likely to win if they are born in certain countries and

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