Some people had suggested that the students who had spent the most time practicing did so because they actually liked this sort of studying and got some sort of pleasure out of it. But the answers the students gave to our questionnaire told a very different story: they didn’t like studying at all. None of them did, including the very best spellers. The hours they had spent studying thousands of words alone were not fun; they would have been quite happy to do something else. Instead, what distinguished the most successful spellers was their superior ability to remain committed to studying
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