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Sarah Lewis Quote on How A ‘Near Win’ Could Be Better Than ‘The Win’

    “To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.”

    Sarah Lewis, The Rise

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    Think about a time when you won – by a lot.  What was going through your mind?

    • “Who’s ready to celebrate?!”
    • “What are we having for dinner?”
    • “All of my hard work has finally paid off.”

    Think also about a time when you lost – by a lot.  What was going through your mind after that?

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      “To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.” ~ Sarah Lewis, The Rise

        “A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)” ~ Sarah Lewis, The Rise

        The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery [Book]

          The Rise by Sarah Lewis

          By: Sarah Lewis

          From this Book:  6 Quotes

          Book Overview:  It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors from Nobel Prize winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. The Rise explores the inestimable value of often ignored ideas the power of surrender for fortitude, the criticality of play for innovation, the propulsion of the near win on the road to mastery, and the importance of grit and creative practice. From an uncommonly insightful writer, The Rise is a true masterwork.

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