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This reads as an argument for gradual growth, where mastery begins with the ordinary and the difficult in sequence. The line points to the idea that higher achievement is built from basic coordination, discipline, and practice, not from a leap over them. It lands for anyone impatient for quick progress, especially when learning a skill that only comes through repeated, unglamorous effort.
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About Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher and writer
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer. He began as a classical philologist, then turned to philosophy early in his academic career, and is known for a body of work that drew wide scholarly attention and lasting popular interest. In 1869 he became Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, but he resigned in 1879 because of long-standing health problems. After that he lived as an independent writer, often in solitude and financial insecurity, moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France. He completed much of his main work in the following decade, before a neurological collapse in 1889 ended his working life.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Where many of his best-known lines come from.