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Discoverer of the Buckyball Offers Tips on Winning a Nobel Prize (npr.org)
20 points by acsillag on Oct 8, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Summary: Do things that at which you can excel while giving your best effort. If you can excel with a second rate effort, switch fields. If you cannot excel with your best effort, switch fields.

I love the "I play pretty good guitar but Eric Clapton made me look like I had honey stuck on my fingers" bit. Professionally, I am security consultant and do pretty well at, but my love is acting. I'm pretty good, but I can see and hear the difference between me and the Claptons, if you will, of the acting world. So I stay where the money is, in IS.




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