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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Weakness
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Grow
Least
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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