I've often asked myself how a kid from a blue-collar family like mine ever got to work with so many accomplished people in such intellectually stimulating places. Looking back, I've come to realize that inglorious factors drove my career: an aching desire to make something of myself; the peculiar blessing of a tendency to doubt my worth; simple hard work; those proverbial 10,000 hours of practice; and my own share of good fortune, which I would not cast to the wind.
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