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I'm currently translating a series of articles on the nature virtuosity from the 1930s and 1940s, and it's fascinating. I'd love to have the focus required to be a virtuoso at something, but there are too many things I'd like to be good at.
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Philosophising (As opposed, on the one hand, to being a mere scholarly philosophical technician, and on the other, to being a woolly dreamer wandering amidst unfalsifiable ideas.)
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Making exciting plans without lying to myself. Sounds incredibly boring, but everything else is apparently subordinated to it. I'd believe a less boring story about it as a virtue, but the resulting fiction would probably be lying to myself.🤔 (Clearly aspirational.)
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