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Key takeaways from How to be excellent

Plato and Aristotle can help you resist conventional worldly success, direct your energy and find your own highest calling Open at source

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Miss comfort, and you’ll find yourself controlled by the need to be comfortable. Miss respect, and you’ll be controlled by the need to be respected. If you don’t leave time to strive, all you’ll do is survive.

Have the creativity – and the courage – to challenge teachers and authority figures without abandoning your craft. Develop your own sense of what it means to do your craft well.

The second step is to use your time in a way that leads to excellence rather than mere success.

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