There's also a ready-made excuse if we fail: it wasn't inferior intelligence, talent or effort – it's just that the timing was wrong.

如果我们失败了，也有现成的借口：不是我的能力天赋或努力比别人少，只是时机不对罢了。

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But there is just a chance that conventional wisdom may be wrong, particularly over timing.

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It's just a theory, of course, but the sign of a worthy thriller may be how eagerly you want to revisit it, just to see where you went wrong or where the movie did, in timing its narrative twists and "aha!"

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