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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

I read a story recently that reminds us of an essential mindset for those who choose to be the exception.

The story is about Anne Miracle.

Anne grew up as a first-generation American,

like millions before her.

Her parents immigrated to the U.S.

in search of a better life and more opportunity.

Anne's parents had high expectations of her.

Her father, a rocket scientist at NASA,

was dogmatic about the pursuit of excellence

in everything that you do.

One of the principles her father regularly repeated was the importance of giving a

world-class effort in everything she did no matter how trivial. From a very young age,

he would always ask if her effort in virtually anything was the best she could do. After struggling with extreme

shyness, the introverted and eventually developed into an elite high school debater. She went on to

attend college at Yale, and while there, she secured a job as an administrative assistant

in the office of the dean of engineering as part of her financial aid. On the first day of work, she happened to

call her parents to say hello, and her father reminded her to think about how she could be world-class

in her new job. She explained to him that she would just be making copies and filing, but he responded

with, I think you should think about it. Respecting his advice, she decided to rethink how she approached her tasks.

She focused on crisp copies that people could not discern from the original.

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