Success Doesn’t Require Role Models

The more you look to others, the less likely you are to find out what you are capable of.

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There’s this joke I’ve heard from the startup scene in China. If you hang around the cafes in Zhongguancun — Beijing’s startup hub — often enough, you’ll inevitably hear a founder at the next table quoting Jack Ma, trying to impress a would-be investor or…