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When Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team , he could have believed that if only he was taller, he’d have been picked.

But he can’t influence his height, so that would not have made him work harder.

Instead, he believed that if only he was better, he’d have been picked.  This led him to practice like a madman the next summer and the rest is history.

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