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Cities Force Us To Interact With Strangers And With The Strange. They Pry The Mind Open. And That Is Why They Are The Idea That Has Unleashed So Many Of Our New Ideas.

So Let's Not Pretend That Travel Is Always Fun. We Don't Spend 10 Hours Lost In The Louvre Because We Like It, And The View From The Top Of Machu Picchu Probably Doesn't Make Up For The Hassle Of Lost Luggage. (more Often Than Not, I Need A Holiday After My Holiday.) We Travel Because We Need To, Because Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything.

The Great Ages Did Not Perhaps Produce Much More Talent Than Ours,' [t.s.] Eliot Wrote. 'but Less Talent Was Wasted.

It Doesn't Matter If People Are Playing Jazz Or Writing Poetry. If They Want To Be Successful, They Need To Learn How To Persist And Persevere And Keep On Working Until The Work Is Done... I Bet There Isn't A Single Highly Successful Person Who Has Not Depended On Grit. Nobody Is Talented Enough To Not Have To Work Hard, And That's What Grit Allows You To Do.

You Know More Than You Know.