An ounce of willingness to look foolish is worth a pound of natural aptitude
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Nobody *wants* to look foolish or play to weaknesses. But a key difference between critics and doers appears to be that critics want to look good playing to strengths, while doers tolerate looking foolish in service of leveraging unexpected opportunities/unfair advantages.
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Ah, #mediocrity slouches in again. This choice is acknowledgment of the fact that environmental leverage generally beats personal exceptionalism, since most of us, by definition, are not particularly exceptional.

