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An art student who failed to gain admission to the Art School said that he now paints walls because he lacks the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the Art School. He is so obsessed with his lack of ability that he has lost sight of what he is good at doing. The more one is good at doing something, the greater is the value of being able to do it.
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