Success 2.0: Getting to the Top and Staying There

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Hidden Brain Media

Science, Arts, Social Sciences, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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There are plenty of talented people in the world. So why do only a tiny percentage of us reach the highest peaks of achievement? This week, we conclude our "Success 2.0" series by talking with researcher Justin Berg about whether there's a secret recipe for finding — and sustaining — success.

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0:00.0	This is Hinton Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:05.0	In the late 16th century, a playwright named Thomas Kidd wrote a tragedy.
0:10.0	It was about an aristocrat who seeks revenge after his son is murdered.
0:14.4	Murder!
0:16.4	Murder!
0:17.4	Help her on my head!
0:19.4	Come stop her mouth!
0:20.4	Away with her!
0:21.8	The play was called The Spanish Tragedy and it is still produced occasionally today.
0:26.4	What outcry has got me from my naked bed and chilled my throbbing heart with trembling fear,
0:31.2	which never danger yet could
0:32.8	don't before.
0:33.8	Thomas Kidd's play was popular in its day.
0:40.3	But unless you're an Elizabethan scholar, you probably haven't heard of the playwright.
0:45.0	You may have heard about one of his contemporaries, though.
0:48.0	William Shakespeare.
0:50.0	As Thomas Kidd's career flat-lined after the Spanish tragedy, Shakespeare wrote masterpiece after masterpiece.
0:58.0	Alas, poor York. Tragedies. I knew him, Horatio.
1:02.0	Followed by comediesies reason and love keep little company
1:05.4	together nowadays followed by historical dramas and more love is not love which
1:10.5	alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove.
1:15.0	Shakespeare's plays have been translated into dozens of languages.
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