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Why Clever People Should Lift - Wysr by Cameron Armstrong

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[Not a joke]

(wish this was my gym) - thx Javier Clever people like to solve problems in clever ways. They savor the thrill of finding a brilliant trick that saves hours of effort. They live for that moment of clarity when a neuron fires in just the right way to connect a logical gap heretofore unconnected. I love that shit too. It gets me fired up. Every time. But for all the excitement that instant of cleverness spurs - a pure focus on cleverness glosses over the gritty reality that embedded in most hard problems. The reality is that the solution to a hard problem often requires: 1 part Clever…

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