Sterling Terrell

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One Who Excels At Their Given Field

One Who Excels At Their Given Field

If you don’t know, watching someone work (who excels at their given field) can be a joy to watch.

  • Michael Jordan in his prime
  • A great debater driving her point home and dismantling someone else’s
  • These songs being sung
  • A developer coding while they simultaneously talk to you

Watch musician Ben Folds write a song in 10 minutes – so good.

Most of all, you can tell he is having fun.

Success Seems

Success Seems

I get it, success seems sometimes nearly within reach.

Simply by proximity.

You are in the same vocation, working in the same way, employing the same grit.

You feel like you could nearly catch it…

At faculty meetings I sat next to people whose books had sold two million copies. Success seemed so close, just within reach. On subway benches I sat next to people who were gangrenous, dying, but I never thought I’d catch what they had.

-Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments (Amazon)

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