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How Entrepreneurship and Self-Discovery Work Together

How Entrepreneurship and Self-Discovery Work Together

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Toya Gavin
Aug 01, 2019
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In many of the talks about her journey with self-discovery and self-mastery, Brené Brown cites a quote by Theodore Roosevelt as one of the most life-changing statements of her life. The quote goes like this:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

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