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Most people who work like dogs don't attain greatness.

My thesis advisor chose work over family. He left his lover and hardly ever saw his son until his son was forced to move in with him at the age of 14. (At which point you've really missed the chance to bond with him)

Back in grad school he was often the only professor working on Sunday -- I worked Sundays most of the time but I usually took Saturdays completely off. I still go by the physics sometime on the weekend and his door is the only one open with the lights on.

He got a tenured professorship and a defined benefit pension but his work as a physicist has been solidly average (like the average physicist)

A lot of hard work cost him his family and won him some kind of security which is hard to find today, but he definitely didn't achieve greatness.



Most people who don't work like dogs don't attain greatness either.

I'd even guess that people who work harder are more likely to attain greatness.




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