Success Skill
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On what happens to a goal once other people hear about it.
On how much attention other people really pay to your mistakes.
On why certain days make it easier to begin again.
On how to estimate the time a project will really take.
On where new opportunities come from, according to fifty years of research.
On a short sentence that more than doubled how often people did what they had planned.
On a Roman general who kept a promise that nobody could have forced him to keep.
On the Victorian novelist who treated writing as a trade, and what it cost him.
The children promised a prize for drawing later drew half as much as the children promised nothing.
At eighteen and at sixty-eight, people believe they have just stopped changing.
The students who felt they had learned the most remembered the least.
Give a seventy-year-old a plain word and ask what comes up. The answers do not come from where you would expect.
