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-In her summary comments, Cox concluded that "high but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence."-But against intuition, talents are not entirely genetic: the rate at which we develop any skill is also, crucially, a function of experience.

-Bob advises aspiring cartoonists to submit their drawings in batches of ten, "because in cartooning, as in life, nine out of ten things never work out."-Indeed, giving up on lover-level goals is not only forgivable, it's sometimes absolutely necessary. You should give up when one lower-level goal can be swapped for another that is more feasible. It also makes sense to switch your path when a di..

-Bob's story reveals a lot about how dogged perseverance toward a top-level goal requires, paradoxically perhaps, some flexibility at lower levels in the goal hierarchy.-It's as if the highest-level goal gets written in ink, once you've done enough living and reflecting to know what that goal is, and the lower-level goals get written in pencil, so you can revise them and sometimes erase them tog..

-"And here's the really important thing. Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it." -How gritty you are at this point in your life might be different from how gritty you were when you were younger. -But in interviews about what it takes to succeed, high achievers often talk about commitment of a different kind. Rather than intensity, what ..

어제부턴가 네이버 계정이 해킹 당했는지.... 밴드에서 계정 접근 금지 조치? 같은거 받아서... 갑자기 투챕터17기에 참석하기 어렵게 됐다...ㅠㅜ 그냥 혼자서 계속 방구석 원서 읽기로 계속 해야겠다.-Staying on the treadmill is one thing, and I do think it's related to staying true to our commitments even when we're not comfortable. But getting back on the treadmill the next day, eager to try again, is in my view even more reflective of grit.-I would add that skill is not the sam..

- We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today."- Since reading and writing didn't come easily, Irving learned that to do anything really well, you have to overextend yourself... In my case, I learned that I just had to ..

-Those words rattled around in my mind for days. Finally, I dried my tears, stopped my cursing, and sat down at my computer. I opened the word processor and stared at the blinking cursor, realizing I hadn't gotten far beyond the basic observation that talent was not enough to succeed in life. I hadn't worked out how, exactly, talent and effort and skill and achievement all fit together.-Talent i..

-In other words, when we can't easily see how experience and training got someone to a level of excellence that is so clearly beyond the norm, we default to labeling that person a "natural."-Dan's point is that if you had a time-lapse film of the hours and days and weeks and years that produced excellence, you could see what he saw: that a high level of performance is, in fact, an accretion of m..

-He was fiercely determined to improve, and not only because he enjoyed the cello : "i was so driven to just show someone, anyone, that I was intellectually capable of anything. At this point I didn't even care what it was."-One way to interpret these stories is that talent is great, but tests of talent stink. There's certainly an argument to be made that tests of talent- and tests of anything e..

-Newly equipped with a casual acquaintance with cash flow, the difference between revenue and profit, and some other rudimentary facts about that I now knew to call "the private sector," we were shipped off to our designated offices around the world, where we would join teams of other consultants and be matched up with corporate clients to solve whatever problems they threw our way.-You can't bl..