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In the long run, dad, grit may matter more than talent. Angela duckworth shines a bright light into a truer understanding of how we achieve. Fourteenyearold mattie avenges her fathers murder, with the help of crusty, oneeyed u. The most singlemindedly determined 14yearold girl in the history of the west seeks justice for her father. Well, she does like poniesbut only if shes advising her dad to buy low and sell high.
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