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The one thing that is constantly overlooked when it comes to the practice debate is the reason why they were working hard in the first place. It is rarely a case where two competing parties just put out x amount of hours on practice just for the sake of working hard. It is often the case that the person putting in long hours really love what they do and want to get better at it and hence they practice. The long hours is just an after thought.

And the Google had the better idea argument makes very little sense. In hindsight of course their idea was brilliant but in the beginning they were the only ones that believed it and as a result worked hard for it.

Lets find some people in the tech graveyard that felt they were working on a bad idea for 80 hours a week.




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