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episode 182: Stop Loving Your City
If you want to be a master of your craft, you need to be able to see your skills and accomplishments objectively. You need to always be on the lookout for ways you might fool yourself – for ways you might cause yourself to feel as if you have accomplished something, when in fact you have accomplished nothing.
One of the ways you can distort your vision of the truth is by identifying too strongly with the place you live. I talk about it in this week’s article.
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