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Persistence Isn't Very Glamorous. If Genius Is One Percent Inspiration And Ninety-nine Percent Perspiration, Then As A Culture We Tend To Lionize The One Percent. We Love Its Flash And Dazzle. But Great Power Lies In The Other Ninety-nine Percent.

I'm Not Saying Abolish Group Work - I Think There's A Time And A Place For People To Come Together And Exchange Ideas, But Let's Restore The Respect We Once Had For Solitude. And We Need To Be Much More Mindful Of The Way We Come Together.

Though Shyness Per Se Was Unacceptable, Reserve Was A Mark Of Good Breeding.

Or At School You Might Have Been Prodded To Come “out Of Your Shell”—that Noxious Expression Which Fails To Appreciate That Some Animals Naturally Carry Shelter Everywhere They Go, And That Some Humans Are Just The Same.

Do You Really Believe In What You Said Or Wrote – In The Thing That’s Bringing Criticism? And If I Do Believe It, I Can Withstand Anything.