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A Key Ring

ambition

“Suppose i were to give you a key ring… with a hundred keys, and I were tell you that one of these keys will unlock it, this door we’re imagining opening in onto all you want to be as a player. How many of the keys would you be willing to try?”
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“Well, I’d try every darn one, Rader tells Lyle.

“Then, you are willing to make mistakes, you see… You are saying you will accept 99% error. The paralysed perfectionist you say you are would stand there before that door. Jingling the keys. Afraid to try the first key.”

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.