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excellence

1 essay on excellence from the Consilium journal. Featuring Aristotle, Alan Watts, Karen Horney. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.


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What Do You Do When the Work You're Good At Makes You Miserable?

Three thinkers on competence and misery. Aristotle says examine the relationship to the work. Watts says you made it a performance. Horney says skill and wound arrived together.

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