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Trying hard, working hard, acting with perseverance have obvious benefits. That Protestant work ethic, as Niall Ferguson suggested, was key to the western hemisphere's unlikely dominance over much of the world for hundreds of years.

But as Aristotle said, "every virtue carried to the extreme is a vice". Here Alistair explores the limits of mindlessly grinding ahead and seeking balance to the grind instead.

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