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What if the price of becoming legendary at one thing is being genuinely bad at almost everything else? In this episode of DarrenDaily On-Demand, Darren Hardy closes out his five-part series on the hidden truths behind super-achievers with maybe the most freeing one yet. He makes the case that the hall-of-famers, decorated Olympians, and celebrated CEOs you admire are probably mediocre or worse at the vast majority of their life outside the one area they've mastered, including his own embarrassing confession about basic household tasks. Darren argues this isn't a flaw to hide from, but the…
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