most things are difficult and require multiple attempts ⛰️
once again, I am deeply disgusted that I must first be bad at something in order to get good at it
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The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
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Comparison is the thief of joy when applied broadly, but the teacher of skills when applied narrowly.”