In the country where I was born, people didn’t think much of this sort of talent. Someone who worked hard but rarely spoke was considered much more trustworthy. A man who’d slogged silently away at some project for decades, then one day mumbled something like, “You know, I sometimes think that this might be what I’ve been trying to do all these years,” would be regarded with awe. A young person who was always going on about new things to try or improvements to make, telling her elders how much better things would be if they’d leave everything up to her, on the other hand, would get hit over
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