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

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Freddie Hubbard Jazz trumpeter and composer

I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened.

Recorded Tony Cox, NPR News & Notes, 1 December 2008 source ↗

Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993

I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.

Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 22 January 2016 source ↗

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