“The first draft of anything is sh*t.” – Ernest Hemingway You finally get bold enough to attempt. You finally do it. Yet the result is underwhelming. Get over it. The path to excellence, the path to remarkable, the path to singular achievement is littered with the debris of initial starts that were merely average, insufficient, failing to align with the dream. And that’s why persistence matters. That’s why Hemingway, in a 1958 interview with the Paris Review, shared that he rewrote the ending to his wartime masterpiece “A Farewell to Arms” 39 times before he got it right. Research of his papers after his death showed the number was…
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