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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
~ Eugene S. Wilson, Amherst College

Curiosity.

Resilience.

Two of the big factors of success for more Great Work.

It’s easy to step back from the call to do more Great Work with any number of excuses – I’m not as smart, fast, rich, wise, connected, ambitious, etc etc as those others.”

But if you tie a commitment to Great Work to the twin engines of Curosity and Resilience, you’re going to get somewhere interesting.

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