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Interesting piece in the NYTimes about the development of Van Gogh's extraordinary ability.
The [Denver Art Museum] show traces van Gogh’s development through the 1880s from a struggling, inhibited neophyte, represented by works like the drawings “Girl Carrying a Loaf of Bread” (1882), to a painter in full flourish who could make the shimmering “Landscape from Saint-Rémy” (1889)….
Mr. Standring... Read more of this blog post »
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The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
— published 2010 — 9 editions |
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain
— published 2006 — 19 editions |
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The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
— published 1999 — 16 editions |
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Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut Revised and Updated Edition
— published 1997 — 5 editions |
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Skeleton Key
by David Shenk (Goodreads Author), Steve Silberman — published 1994 |
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The End of Patience: Cautionary Notes on the Information Revolution
— published 1999 |
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Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
— published 2007 — 2 editions |
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“You have to want it, want it so bad you will never give up, so bad that you are ready to sacrifice time, money, sleep, friendships, even your reputation,” he writes. “You will have to adopt a particular lifestyle of ambition, not just for a few weeks or months but for years and years and years. You have to want it so bad that you are not only ready to fail, but you actually want to experience failure: revel in it, learn from it.”
― David Shenk, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
― David Shenk, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
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