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His human flaws made him more charismatic but his genuine excellence was crucial to the appeal.
This wasn't a common-or-garden bundle-over-line finish from a man throwing himself guilelessly about an opponents' penalty area, either – it was a headed finish of genuine excellence.
But the great majority of entries rise to genuine excellence, with particularly entertaining, insightful or horrifying contributions from Bill Buford (on spending the night in Central Park), Dave Eggers (picking up hitchhikers in Cuba), Mark Ross (being held hostage in war-torn Uganda) and Jonathan Tourtellot (discovering "the two faces of tourism" in Mexico's Copper Canyon).
According to them, these processes generate true beliefs only when accompanied by genuine excellence or epistemic virtue (guṇa).
We improve it by focusing on genuine excellence, not by manufacturing a fake crisis.
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Lord Baker said the awards were "a genuine badge of excellence".
No wonder the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has labelled it a "genuine centre of excellence".
My point here is not to suggest that we should return to a more rigorous grading system (if I do believe that is a good idea), but to observe that, in our current system, A has become a normative grade, and thus no longer a genuine marker of excellence.
You were enchanted by her every move because she'd earned your trust by delivering the subject matter in excellence and she possessed a genuine interest in your overall success.
So it looks like pleasure and utility friendships are at best deficient modes of friendship; by contrast, virtue friendships, because they are motivated by the excellences of your friend's character, are genuine, non-deficient friendships.
Brady got a Super Bowl ring first then backfilled the excellence, gradually replacing his early-career "gutsy winner" scaffolding with genuine greatness.
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