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Someone can keep delivering excellent results while becoming progressively less prepared for what comes next. “Success is a lousy teacher,” Bill Gates wrote in The Road Ahead. “It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” He went on to describe success as an unreliable guide to the future. The distinction between high performance and […]

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