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Pessimism + ambition = 🤯

When pessimism teams-up with ambition it often produces outstanding performance.

To be the very best at anything, you will need to be your harshest critic, and that is almost impossible when your starting point is high self-confidence.

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What is takes to be successful? Many self-improvement books try to motivate the reader through phrases which are mostly meaningless. In this book, the author uses science and statistics to objectively show how to be successful (in our society).

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