What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?

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Amy Tan Novelist; author of The Joy Luck Club

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people, and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 October 2000 source ↗

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