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Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.

Gretchen Rubin

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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
Author
Blogger
Motivational Speaker
Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
Innate
Mastery
Enthusiasm
Ability
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I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
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Now is now. Here is my treasure.
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