EDISON, EINSTEIN AND YOU: WHY DO PEOPLE EXCEL IN ANY FIELD AND CAN YOU MAKE YOURSELF A GENIUS, A GREAT SCIENTIST, ARTIST OR ATHLETE

Thomas Edison said "genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nice percent perspiration". Could you be an Einstein or an Edison? Could you stand out in your field?Invent new things and change the world? Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work. Vladimir Horowitz supposedly said, "If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, my wife knows it. If I don't practice for three days, the world knows it."

Can you be a genius without being born a genius? We really don't know why one person becomes an Einstein and someone else becomes Mr.Average. Some experts who have examined the data say that it is not just innate talent but perseverance and (hold on to your seat) hard work that wins in many cases.

How do you explain someone like Sho Yano? the Chicago boy who matriculated in college when he was 9 and medical school at 12?

THE ADVENTURES OF SHO YANO: BOY GENIUS WRITES RESEARCH PAPERS PLAYS PIANO ON RADIO SHOW

"Scientists worldwide have conducted scores of studies since the 1993 publication of a landmark paper by K. Anders Ericsson of Florida State University and two colleagues, many focusing on sports, music and chess, in which performance is relatively easy to measure and plot over time. But plenty of additional studies have also examined other fields, including business".

WHAT IT TAKES TO BE GREAT

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