Saturday, January 2, 2010

Try just a bit longer

In reading "Outliers" the ideas of mastery taking 10,000 hours of
practice (or 10 years) comes up. A similar line of thinking came up in
the book "Think & Grow Rich". Experience yields success. But without
persistence you can easily stop 3 feet from gold. Essentially, when
you're ready to give up, give it 5 more minutes... You may be rewarded
handsomely. These are all little reminders from each of the books for me. It's a reminder that sometimes you just need a few more minutes to figure out the problem. I know I've relied on others to solve problems for me, but I don't remember those lessons nearly as well as the ones that I had to work at or experience.

This is an objective that I hope to instill in Jenna as well. Just a
bit more practice can come from perseverance which can mean the
difference between being good or great.

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