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social skills might be considered at a

premium.

Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If

genius is one percent inspiration and

ninety-nine percent perspiration, then

as a culture we tend to lionize the one

percent. We love its flash and dazzle.

But great power lies in the other

ninety-nine percent.

“It’s not that I’m so smart,” said Einstein,

who was a consummate introvert.

“It’s that I stay with problems longer.”

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None of this is to denigrate those who

forge ahead quickly, or to blindly glorify

the reflective and careful. The point

is that we tend to overvalue buzz and

discount the risks of reward-sensitivity:

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