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There is virtue, or depending on how you look at it, perhaps there is vice, to be found

in being the first person to complete a great undertaking.

It brings you notoriety and fame.

Oftentimes it will bring you wealth or power.

Think about the greatest explorers and adventurers in history.

Who comes to mind?

For me it's people like Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, maybe Ferdinand

Magellan or Neil Armstrong. Now one in all, these people are famous for, well, what are they famous for exactly?

Oftentimes, it's for being the first to complete their great adventure.

Marco Polo is often thought of, and even sometimes taught, as being the first European to travel to Asia, or at least to China.

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