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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

— Lucille Ball

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The speaker argues that recognising your limits matters more than listing your strengths, and calls that self-knowledge good taste. It reframes restraint as a skill: choosing what to leave alone shapes your work as much as what you decide to attempt.

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