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Just like our salary is valued in a skewed way (people would rather have a 5% increase if their colleagues get 0% than a 20% increase if their colleagues get 30%), our career self-evaluations are largely based on what we think of others’ level of success.

When people tell you that you ...

Doing the work was what mattered to Isaac Newton. He kept at it before the plague, during, and after his return to college. He wrote that during the plague year, he had been in the prime of his age for invention and minded Mathematics and Philosophy more than at any time since.

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We fear often to the things we know something might bad will happen. We tend to visualize in our mind that if it goes this way, maybe this way will turn out this way.

But what if I tell you that it is all wrong? because what you are thinking...