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Sacrifice Is Overrated

Harvard Business Review

It is a sacrifice to give up being liked, as Steve Jobs has, in order to remain true to an insane standard of quality few around him could ever relate to. Thomas Merton, the famous Trappist monk and Catholic scribe wrote, "A monk is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything.

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