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When Quitting Is The Right Thing To Do: 7 Lessons From My Brief Poker Career

Terry Starbucker

Back in late 2004, I decided a goal of mine was going to be to play in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It wasn’t a coincidence that my poker career ended about the same time I took up blogging – I had substituted one goal for another, almost without missing a beat. Blogging saved me from a very unsuccessful poker career.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. 2 (2004): 349–399. There’s no other way to put it.

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