Fortune Magazine published an inspiring article on how painful and demanding hard work in the key to greatness, not innate wiring at birth and that targeted natural gifts do not exist. One is not born a great CEO, chess player, golfer, or scientist. Greatness is really achieved through tremendous hard work over many years. Learning is subjected to the law of diminishing returns where one accelerates in learning the fundamentals quickly then start to slow down in developing specialized knowledge, and finally stops, except for the few that persist over the years and crossover into excellence. Deliberate practise with continual critique of ones performance is the key to success. Elite performers practise their crafts incessantly.
My take: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a fundamental trait of elite performers. Nothing in nature comes for free.
http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/great_1.html
Sunday, November 05, 2006
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