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Malcolm Gladwell Defending the 10,000 Hour Rule
Gladwell and his “10,000 hour rule” from the book Outliers has been questioned by David Epstein in his new book The Sports Gene. Epstein says the study that’s the basis for Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is flawed, the assertion that practice matters is meaningless, and your biological setup determines how much practice you need to put into a task to […]
The NFL’s Modern (Mindful) Man
How Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin — a bike-riding, socially conscious, Animal Collective–loving person — is redefining what it means to be a football player. Interesting Excerpts: “In a league where single-minded football obsession and the purposeful snuffing out of personality seems to be encouraged among players, Barwin has established himself as a unique character. […]
CC: In Praise of the ‘Shala’
I always feel a pang when I hear a shala is closing; distance is no matter, so the closing of a Jois studio makes me sad for the students. My very first Ashtanga class was at Yoga Path in Irvine, California–across from where I worked. I blundered into the Ashtanga class by accident; the Iyengar class was […]
7/22 Quote: Albert Einstein
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ~Albert Einstein