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people’s lives and were “among the key

people in the world.” Second, he built

his expertise step by painstaking step.

Because he entered countless science

fairs, he says,

I acquired a central ability that was

to help me through my entire career:

patience. I’m serious. Patience

is usually so underrated. I mean, for

all those projects, from third grade

all the way to eighth grade, I just

learned things gradually, figuring

out how to put electronic devices together

without so much as cracking

a book.… I learned to not worry so

much about the outcome, but to

concentrate on the step I was on and

to try to do it as perfectly as I could

when I was doing it.

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