The concept of excellence has always preoccupied great minds. Aristotle liked to say that excellence is not an act, but a habit. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that, to achieve excellence in the big things, you have to develop the habit in little matters. And when English nurse Florence Nightingale was asked the secret to her brave success, she said that she ‘never gave or took any excuse’.

Read on what Lewis Pugh explains here.

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