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Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence. By Maria Popova How top-down attention, feedback loops, and daydreaming play into the science of success.

Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence

The question of what it takes to excel — to reach genius-level acumen at a chosen endeavor — has occupied psychologists for decades and philosophers for centuries. Groundbreaking research has pointed to “grit” as a better predictor of success than IQ, while psychologists have admonished against the dangers of slipping into autopilot in the quest for skill improvement. In recent years, one of the most persistent pop-psychology claims has been the myth of the “10,000-hour rule” — the idea that this is the amount of time one must invest in practice in order to reach meaningful success in any field. But in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (public library), celebrated psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, best-known for his influential 1995 book Emotional Intelligence, debunks the 10,000-hour mythology to reveal the more complex truth beneath the popular rule of thumb:

My favorite quote by Ben Franklin. The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself Today. Everybody wants what feels good.

The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself Today

Everyone wants to live a care-free, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room. Everybody wants that -- it's easy to want that. If I ask you, "What do you want out of life? " and you say something like, "I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like," it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that. 5 Things You Have to Understand Before You Start a Business. Like many startups Weebly, the website creation and hosting service, was born in a college dorm room.

5 Things You Have to Understand Before You Start a Business

Back in 2006, co-founders David Rusenko, Chris Fanini and Dan Veltri wanted an easy way to display their work on a website. They weren’t satisfied with the available options, so they set about creating their own service. A year later their project was accepted into the startup incubator Y Combinator, and Rusenko, Fanini and Veltri dropped out of school to move to San Francisco. Fast-forward to present: 15 million people have created a site on Weebly, and 100 million people visit a Weebly site every month. The company has been profitable since the beginning of 2009 and currently employs 80 people. 15 Worst Excuses Not to Be an Entrepreneur.

It's likely that one of your excuses is that you don't have enough time--so let's get right to it: 1.

15 Worst Excuses Not to Be an Entrepreneur

I'm too scared. Join the club. Every entrepreneur is scared. Scientific Proof That Red Meat Makes You Happy. Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses. A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets.

Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses

I learned that the "best of the best" tend to share the following eight core beliefs. 1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield. Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments and groups. They build huge armies of "troops" to order about, demonize competitors as "enemies," and treat customers as "territory" to be conquered. Extraordinary bosses see business as a symbiosis where the most diverse firm is most likely to survive and thrive. Montrer de la gratitude rend plus heureux. Est-ce parce que nous vivons des temps de frustration liés à une crise mondiale?

Montrer de la gratitude rend plus heureux

En tout cas, la capacité à remercier et à exprimer sa reconnaissance s'avère une clé fondamentale pour survivre, être plus heureux et même réussir dans la société actuelle. Une nouvelle étude consacrée à la gratitude parachève les découvertes avancées en ce sens par la psychologie positive depuis une dizaine d'années. Menée à l'Université de Southern California, dans la prestigieuse Marshall School of Business, celle-ci démontre que la gratitude est un outil pour évoluer positivement au travail, surtout lorsque cet environnement est «managé» par un directeur plutôt belliqueux et manquant de confiance en lui.

Une étude qui prouve au final le bon sens de la formule «dis merci à la dame!» Solliciter la gratitude régulièrement, comme un muscle » DOSSIER SPECIAL - Psychologie, nos émotions décryptées » La chasse au bonheur fait-elle du bien? » Le bonheur est contagieux. The importance of sleep in a startup « Startup Marketing Lessons Learnt. One of the biggest myths in startups, that just can’t seem to be killed is this notion of working day and night and never sleeping.

The importance of sleep in a startup « Startup Marketing Lessons Learnt

Over the past 12 months, the time since I have joined Buffer as Co-Founder, was also the time, where I have developed the most focused sleeping routine in my life. Getting enough sleep and prioritizing it over any other task, is one of the most important things I believe. Here are a few thoughts on why sleep and thinking about your sleeping habits is so vital: Gapingvoid gallery.