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We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

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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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