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Mastery Brings Joy

It's never, ever too late to acquire a new skill.

Heather Havrilesky
Nov 28, 2022
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Spring (1924) by Georgia O’Keeffe

When it comes to developing our talents and exploring new areas of expertise, most of us are total head cases. Thanks to the fact that a small percentage of humans take expensive lessons from the time they’re infants, the rest of us walk around telling absurd stories about how it’s too late to develop a new skill. Even w…

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