One of the biggest myths in our society is that practice makes you better. However, this is just not true. Practice is an opportunity to get better, but practice does not make you better. When you practice the same way average people practice, you will be average. If you keep practicing that same way you […]
Scottish chess grandmaster Jonathan Rowson provides the perfect explanation of why sometimes ambition leads to success and why other times it leads to failure. I came across Rowson’s explanation as I was reading NY Times Bestselling author Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed “. Tough quotes Rowson as saying the following about ambition: “When it […]
When times are good, it’s easy to do good. When times are bad, it’s not so easy. As the saying goes, rising tides lift all boats. So, it doesn’t say much about you when you ride a wave serendipitously to success. On the other hand, it says a whole lot about you when you can […]