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- JOSH KAUFMAN, THE PERSONAL MBA

"Understanding your Locus of Control is being able to separate what you can control (or strongly influence) from what you can't. Trying to control things that aren't actually under your control is a recipe for eternal frustration."

- JOSH KAUFMAN, THE PERSONAL MBA

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