Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The difference between good and great - practice

What does it take to be successful? Spare 10,000 hours to be a genius starts with:

----------
LONDON: Want to be a genius? Well, it's not that difficult -- all you need to do is to devote 10,000 hours to your chosen field, says a new study.
Researchers in Germany have found that genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration, and one has to practice just 10,000 hours to reach the top in their chosen discipline, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

----------

This is a good lesson for children to lear: "It takes work to succeed." Of course you have to be intelligent about the type of practice you do. Doing addition tables for ten thousand hours won't help you much with calculus. At some point merely doing the same thing again and again provides little benefit.

(Hat type: Joanne Jacobs)


----------
Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education

No comments: