An Olympian or a concert musician - they had the talent and the discipline to go all the way - could you have?

An Olympian or a concert musician - they had the talent and the discipline to go all the way - could you have?
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My mother was a concert pianist, although she (being a woman in the 50’s) gave up whatever career she might have had to care for her children. I also have a neice who was an Olympia champion. I guess the equivalent for me is that I went back to school after my children were older and got a Ph.D. That took some doing—although granted not as much as the aforementioned achievements.
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