If you never really try, you never really fail. The gap bet… - Kpaxs

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If you never really try, you never really fail. The gap between your performance and your potential can always be attributed to effort rather than ability.

This is not laziness. It is, in most cases, a sophisticated self-protection strategy operating below the level of conscious awareness.

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Pseudonymous reader and writer based in Paris. Posts as @Kpaxs on X and publishes the Three Times Wiser Substack. Real name not publicly disclosed.

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