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True Grit
By Angela Lee Duckworth and Lauren Eskreis-Winkler — 2013
It may be obvious that effort and stamina are required to accomplish anything worthwhile in life. But how easy is it to forget this fact in moments when we feel tortoise-like relative to our seemingly hare-like peers?
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