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Be Brilliant Every Day
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Be Brilliant Every Day

by Andy Cope, Andy Whittaker
June 2014
Beginner
240 pages
3h 38m
English
Capstone
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A Groundhog Life?

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Groundhog Day, what a great movie. Even if you haven't seen it you'll be familiar with the phrase. As a delegate once said, slouching into a training session, ‘Same shit, different day.

And he's kind of right. Life can become a little bit … samey. I call it ‘having a C+ life’. Everything's just kind of ‘OK’. In school report terms you ‘could do better’.

I noticed on the news that there's a town in Scotland called Dull. It was on the news because it's recently been twinned with a town in America … called Boring.

And, metaphorically, life can become a bit like that. The alarm goes off at the same time every day and you hit the ...

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