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1 week agoThe Foundations of Achievement
Throughout human history, individuals and societies have advanced when they upheld rigorous standards that develop and advance merit, competence, effort, skill, and capability. The construction of monuments, architectural knowledge, the development of engineering systems, and the advances in scientific knowledge all required precise alignment with universal laws of mathematics, geometry, and physics (Haklay & Gopher, 2020; Trigger, 1990). For example, in the case of the Egyptian pyramids,
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