I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
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I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
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And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
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