Quick Check

1. In your professional domain, what's an example of work you recognized as genuinely excellent—something where you could feel the quality difference before you could articulate why?

2. Can you now articulate why that work was good? What made it excel compared to adequate work in the same category?

3. Is there a gap between work you can recognize as excellent and work you can produce? How big is that gap, and what does it suggest about where you need to develop skill?

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