TITLE: The Innate Boundary
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 03, 2016  4:49 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 If you love a demanding task, one that requires both discipline
 and talent -- shooting hoops, playing drums, writing code --
 you eventually discover an innate boundary: you can apprehend
 real virtuosity, especially as it's used to best you, but you
 can't quite incorporate it.  You will never be more than
 almost-great.
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-- Tad Friend, in
<A HREF="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/18/holding-the-t">
   Squash for the Midlife Slump</A>.

Still, you get to love.  That's a good thing.
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