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Bryan’s rule of thumb is also valuable for discovering one’s limitations. If you are doing all you can, and 10x simply isn’t possible, then one should probably conclude that goal isn’t achievable (I don’t mean to suggest that this is the case for you). Not everyone who wants to be a professional athlete, artist, musician, academic, etc has the ability to do so no matter how many quality hours they devote to their craft.

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