Word: excellent
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...it’s more important than ever to recapture that child-like sense of imagination?” Coleman said. “What if, in a world so vastly transformed by crisis that it barely resembles the one we left in 2008, what matters most is not Excel proficiency or accounting acumen, but a passion and capacity for creativity...
Until now, you have succeeded at mastering a series of well-defined tasks. Excel in school. Prepare for tests. Achieve in sports, music, arts, or some other extra-curricular activity. Impress teachers and elders. But after today, there is no immediate grade to complete, no test to ace, no award to receive. The way to judge success—and to measure fulfillment—becomes much less defined. But the lack of any clear direction is exactly what makes this moment so exciting, because it brings with it newfound freedom. So embrace it, and take the chance...
...Bulldogs excel when the ball is on the ground...
These similarities between the Joneses and their genuine counterparts, though comically portrayed, are also troubling. They suggest that perhaps normal families operate around the goal of self-promotion. Are we just selling our images to one another, and to those around us? When parents encourage their children to excel, is it for their own betterment, or for the reflections of their success in popularity and material gain...
...Hamilton project I’m working on. I’m not a founding father, I didn’t grow up during the Revolutionary War, but when I read Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, there was something about Hamilton’s drive to excel and to use words to excel that really spoke to me in a way and I said, “I know that guy.” It’s not necessarily about the specifics, but about really trying to connect with something that you feel like...