![]() ![]() ![]() Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. He discovered that in most fields-especially those that are complex and unpredictable-generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.ĭavid Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. ABOUT THE BOOK What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Here are some of my favorite takeaways from McGonigal’s book. It explains how we can “break old habits and create healthy habits, conquer procrastination, find our focus, and manage stress.” The Willpower Instinct by award-winning Stanford psychologist and lecturer Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is based on a course she teaches, and it’s filled with the latest scientific insights about self-control. The good news is we can train our brains to get better at controlling our behavior. Willpower - we all probably wish we had more of this character trait. Find a summary video of The Willpower Instinct below. This series by Brian Johnson, founder of PhilosophersNotes, features big ideas from leading thinkers on a wide range of personal-development topics. ![]() ![]() ![]() I much prefer the funny, almost slapstick pace of Heyer’s Reg romps. And like my favorite Old Man’s Beard Moss, it grows slowly but is ultimately beautiful. ![]() Its less of a love story and more a duck out of water character study.Īfter my third read, I am now convinced it is elegant. ![]() The pace plods along as slow as Hugo seems to be witted, and is filled with a lot about the place and the Gentlemen (smugglers). We have a very unique character in Hugo, Major Daracott, who is more Bingley than Darcy. Heyer’s Unknown Ajax is not her usual romp. But soon enough, his family is wondering if the even temper amicability is just a strong a put on as his thick accent. Not only is he a large, military man with a northern brogue and connections to trade, but he doesn’t seem to be phased by anything his newly met kin want to throw at his head.Īt first, they think he is just a dummy. This “lumbering Ajax” is a former Major, and regrettably the offspring of Lord Daracott’s second son and “a weaver’s brat”. When the unknown heir to the Daracott legacy arrives, the house and its many dependents are thrown up in arms ![]() ![]() ![]() 5 from 3 stars) for engaging seriously and passionately with quantum physics, ethics, and philosophy in (close to) equal measure, in particular with her premise of the fascinating Heisenberg/Bohr correspondence and much later in the book with her 100-odd page chapter (chp 7) on various classic quantum physics experiments, tested and theorized, reframing them to prove her ideas about entanglement and agential realism. Barad gets points (enough to bump her up. ![]() But it did not quite live up to my expectations. I really wanted to love this book, as someone with a background and aspiration in physics, philosophy, and moral cosmologies. Most popular and academic reviews (mostly by those in softer sciences rather than physics) seem uncomfortably favorable toward the book, and while I appreciate it greatly, I feel her work, for (due to) all its apparent or self-declared nuances, requires a more nuanced interrogation. ![]() I review the book here in hopes to share new perspectives on Barad’s arguments. I had the great pleasure and challenge of reading Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. ![]() |