This sounds a lot like the "Even Steven" schtick from Seinfeld.
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#12I want what all men want, I just want more. -Achilles
The problem is, that pretty much all men want more.
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#14I once heard an Olympic gold medalist say "You can't go from practicing five hours a day to ten, but can you go to five hours and ten minutes?" Of course there are limits to everything. It's just not very often you are at your limit.
Ya, that's the "N+epsilon" or "open set" theory
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#15I once heard an Olympic gold medalist say "You can't go from practicing five hours a day to ten, but can you go to five hours and ten minutes?" Of course there are limits to everything. It's just not very often you are at your limit.
I once heard the great South African batsman Barry Richards explain a similar trick he used. When he first goes out to bat, he will tell himself "Look, I am good enough to make 10 runs against any bowling attack in the world" - and he would concentrate on getting those 10 runs only. Once he reaches 10, he'd tell himself the same thing again, and concentrate on the next 10 runs. He made 80 first class centuries in his career.
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#16N <= 38
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#18In the Marines I was taught that there's always one more thing you can do to improve your situation.
That's what I do when I'm stuck on a programming project or unsure where to start: identify one thing that will improve the situation, and then do that thing. Repeat until done.