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Nikola Tesla Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
retrieval
invariable.
correlation
unden...
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rags
tremendous
emerged.
diminishing
predict
practical,
possess
abilities
convenient,
conclusively
amazingly
nonexistent
Stan Smith, a world-class tennis player and winner of Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and eight Davis cups,
uncoordinated.
While many theories were put forth, there was one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.
“gifted”
uncanny
Studies of people with extraordinary abilities, like Ted Williams, have given rise to what Swedish psychologist Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the “10,000 hour” rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice.
intellectual,
accumulation
Midget
societal,
