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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (135)	4/7/2009 10:56:08 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 153

My kids' tennis coach says "Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard".

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (135)	4/7/2009 9:23:35 PM
From: coug	Respond to of 153

Thank you MD, That Gladwell vid is right up my alley.. First of all, I had never heard of this guy before, but I am not ashamed to admit it because I miss so much but I do catch so much too, so that's a push..:) I like him.. Thank you for introducing me to him.. I have thought about this type of thing for a long time. Why do some people come right of the chute ready to rock n' roll? So many of the "successful" artists, composers, writers, actors, singers, etc are in prime time by their early twenty's.. While the majority of the aspiring types, like me for example, labor throughout their lives but never seem to reach what we call here big time success, but maybe it is success in the grand scheme of things. :).. I don't know.. I just don't know.. The way it has seemed to me, it is pre-destiny. We are given guidelines, maybe even choices of what we will do here before we agree to come.. Maybe we even choose our parents.. Maybe, maybe, maybe.. So I am not sure I agree with Gladwell as it just takes 10 years or 10 thousand hours of sweat, those with a certain level of drive and intelligence.... So many others with at least a 120 IQ have put that in on something and pretty well came up mostly empty.. For example, If I remember right, he said the Beatles played a strip joint in Hamburg for 8 years or so in preparation.. That would have placed them at about 12 when they went.. I am just wondering.. But this topic is why Mozart is such a fascination to me, as is Stephen Hawkings...Hawkings came "here" with all this knowledge and insight on things and without the necessity of "our" formal education, "here" he knew MORE what was goin on.. He brought it with him him imo.. Per Wiki.. Stephen Hawking.. ..."It was only necessary for him to know that something could be done, and he could do it without looking to see how other people did it. [...] He didn't have very many books, and he didn't take notes. Of course, his mind was completely different from all of his contemporaries.[7] Hawking was passing with his fellow students, but his unimpressive study habits gave him a final examination score on the borderline between first and second class honours, making an "oral examination" necessary. Berman said of the oral examination: And of course the examiners then were intelligent enough to realize they were talking to someone far more clever than most of themselves.[7].." en.wikipedia.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I know this post is rambling but maybe you get my idea, but my life's experiences has led me to my own conclusions which really are the only ones I can really rely on...:) I am going to archive Gladwell to listen to him once again.. I already listened to parts a couple of times.. Thank you once again, m