Here is something interesting to think about, as you head into your Thanksgiving break, and soon your long Christmas break. Michelangelo (1475-1564) said:
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."Malcom Gladwell, best-selling author known for his books The Tipping Point, Blink, and most recently Outliers writes of something he calls The 10,000 hour rule. The 10,000 hour rule is a concept that it takes that many hours to truly 'perfect' any craft or skill. That is a little more than four years, working on something eight hours a day, for 300 days a year. Or, you could work on something four hours a day, 300 days a year, for nine years.
So a good idea, might be to find something you love, and work at it very hard. At the same time, another good idea would be to . . .
Stay fit,
Dad
