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"A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan."
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Source: Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin
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