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Magic 10,000. - Secret of Champions and Masters.

We often do not know about what made it possible but we spot talent and mastery in individuals only when it suddenly erupts forth on the global stage. Infinite research has been carried out and countless tomes have been written, trying to answer the question, "what is it that makes people so incredibly talented and achieve mastery?" While DNA and upbringing is important, the most important are belief, passion, and hard work. Called the '10 years Rule', by Herbert Simon the Nobel Prize winner in Economics provides us an answer. A study by 'High performance Anthropologist' Rasmus Ankerson corroborates this 10 year rule with the 10,000 hours, and the 10,000 cycles rule. _______________________ Mastery comes from repeatedly practicing something and learning from each session and every hour of practice.  Let's look at some examples.  Nadia Comăneci Nadia Comăneci , the first person to ever win ever perfect scores in gymnast...

The usefulness of useless knowledge

“The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.” In an age obsessed with practicality, productivity, and efficiency, I frequently worry that we are leaving little room for abstract knowledge and for the kind of curiosity that invites just enough serendipity to allow for the discovery of ideas we didn’t know we were interested in until we are, ideas that we may later transform into new combinations with applications both practical and metaphysical. This concern, it turns out, is hardly new. In ' The usefulness of Useless Knowledge' , originally published in the October 1939 issue of  Harper’s , American educator  Abraham Flexner  explores this dangerous tendency to forgo  pure curiosity in favor of pragmatism  — in science, in education, and in human thought at large — to deliver a poignant critique of the motives encouraged in young minds, contrasting those with the drivers that motivated so...