On the topic of achieving anything, I heard an interesting observation recently whilst listening to a talk by Alain De Botton.
He observed, that if you go to a large bookstore and go to the self help section there is a clear divide between the bulk of the books - half of them are the big, bold, you can do anything! books, teaching its reader how to achieve anything and everything they have always wanted and how its only us stopping ourselves. The other half were books on coping with failure..
Whether or not this is strictly true in terms of what the books are, i thought it was interesting none the less.
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