The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need fo… - Robert Greene
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The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959, in Los Angeles) is an American author specializing in books about strategy, power and seduction. His first book was The 48 Laws of Power (1998), which became a best-seller with more than 1 million copies sold in the US.
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it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.
In fact, it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.
You will fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch.
When you do inevitably fail, it will confuse and demoralize you past the point of learning.
