Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Aristotle had it right 2000 years ago

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

You can be awesome at whatever you set your mind to....

...There is something wonderfully empowering about this. It suggests we have remarkable capacity to influence our own outcomes. But that's also daunting. One of Ericsson's central findings is that practice is not only the most important ingredient in achieving excellence, but also the most difficult and the least intrinsically enjoyable.

If you want to be really good at something, it's going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures...



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