Saturday, May 30, 2009
Dedication Beats Experience and Talent
...rather than mere experience or even raw talent, it is dedicated, slogging, generally solitary exertion - repeatedly practicing the most difficult physical tasks for an athlete, repeatedly performing new and highly intricate computations for a mathematician - that leads to first-rate performance. And it should never get easier; if it does, you are coasting, not improving. Ericsson calls this exertion 'deliberate practice,' by which he means the kind of practice we hate, the kind that leads to failure and hair-pulling and fist-pounding
(emphasis added, from The Science of Experience - Time, Feb. 28, 2008).
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this posted by David August at 5:46 PM 
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AH painful but true thanks for the daily bits of wisdom,
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