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If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals. Do not desire to be thought to know anything. Even if you appear to others to be somebody, distrust yourself. It is not easy at once to keep your will in harmony with nature and to secure externals; absorbed in one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
Key Insight
Looking competent and becoming competent compete for the same attention. Let the room misread you for a minute rather than starve the work to protect an image that was never yours to keep.
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