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Many such top performers overcame their average—or even below-average—intellects and nonexistent aptitudes to develop outstanding abilities in disciplines such as chess, music, business, and medicine.
great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.
Swedish psychologist Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the “10,000 hour” rule.
To put that number in perspective, if you practiced an activity four hours per day, seven days per week, it would take you about seven years to reach ten thousand hours. That kind of dedication can only come from the heart—a true love and passion for the activity.
There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others.
Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.
In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.
Tesla was never one to chase recognition—he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation.
Einstein said that “imagination is more important than knowledge,” because “knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Every mathematical enigma solved, every masterful symphony composed, every revolutionary machine invented, every brilliant philosophy penned, every great corporation built...they all sprang from a person with an extraordinary imagination. Marcus Aurelius once said that a person’s life is “dyed with the color of his imagination.”
When you start viewing creativity as a process of combination, and imagination as the ability to connect, stretch, and merge things in new ways, creative brilliance becomes less mystifying. A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are.
The more varied your knowledge and experiences are, the more likely you are to be able to create new associations and fresh ideas.
It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.
