투 챕터 북클럽 17기 [GRIT]_ 21-23p _ 4일차

-"I have no great quickness of apprehension [that] is so remarkable in some clever men," he admits. "My power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought is very limited."

-My industry has been nearly as great as it could have been in the observation and collection of facts. What is far more important, my love of natural science has been steady and ardent."

-One biographer describes Darwin as some who kept thinking about the same questions long after others would move on to different- and no doubt easier- problems: 

The normal response to being puzzled about something is to say, "I'll think about this later," and then, in effect, forget about it. With Darwin, one feels that he deliberately did not engage in this kind of semi-willful forgetting. He kept all the questions alive at the back of his mind, ready to be retrieved when a relevant bit of data presented itself.

-So, why do we place such emphasis on talent? And why fixate on the extreme limits of what we might do when, in fact, most of us are at the very beginning of our journey, so far, far away from those outer bounds? And why do we assume that it is our talent, rather than our effort, that will decide where we end up in the very long run?