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Comment by tbmtbmtbmtbmtbm

5 months ago

Make sure you start every day with the type of confidence that would allow you to refer to yourself as an intellectual one-percenter

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FeteCommuniste  5 months ago

He specifically wrote that his intellect was not in the "top 1%" of people who seemed to solve problems easily. His "1% status" was in the bullheadedness needed to pound away at a problem for days to find a solution.

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