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Awesome breakdown and tracking of her Gilbert's amazing journey. Based on your analysis of how this mental model applies to your prior OGT subjects, it seems like a person can either be a jackhammer, a hummingbird, or both.

Can someone be neither, and then is the important thing to know which one we (think we) are?

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I like that thought. Yes, I guess getting meta about it, there's a difference between who you are and think you are. But in this case, maybe who you think you are is what matters, and that you can change that? But I also don't think she thought that far into this.

I think, like most dichotomies, it's just an attempt to temporarily simplify the world to see if that perspective shift can change how you think about a given problem. In this case, I think her main point was just showing people there are other options and if you don't know your passion out of the gate, you're OK.

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