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No man is able to make progress unless he trains himself, little by little, in what is difficult.
Epictetus · Discourses · paraphrase
What it means today

Progress does not arrive whole; it is built in small, difficult increments. The person who avoids the hard practice avoids the progress.

Try this todayTrain on one small difficult thing today, and call it progress.
Today’s questionWhat difficult thing am I avoiding, that is my next step of progress?
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