10/1 Quote: The greatest step toward a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. ~Steve Maraboli

6/12 Picture: Serenity

You Can’t Teach Speed

Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise. From Michael Lombardo’s and Robert Deaners abstract of You Can’t Teach Speed: Most scientists agree that expertise requires both innate talent and proper training. Nevertheless, the highly influential deliberate practice model (DPM) of expertise holds that either talent does not exist, or that its contribution to performance […]

Reading and English Majors

From Chronicle — The Ideal English Major: Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess. When we walk the streets of Manhattan with Walt Whitman or contemplate our hopes for eternity with Emily Dickinson, we are reborn […]