2003-2010
40+ oss projects
100+ websites/applications
470+ blog posts
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2003-2010
40+ oss projects
100+ websites/applications
470+ blog posts
a lot of code
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To work hard and practice deliberately
2. You Must Choose
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Choose
You Must
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You Must
Choose
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“
Jim Collins
Greatness is not a function of
circumstances. Greatness, it turns
out, is largely a matter of
conscious choice. You must
maintain an unwavering faith that
you can, and will prevail in the end.
Good To Great
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Malcolm Gladwell
We sometimes think of being good
at mathematics as an innate ability.
You either have "it" or you don't. [...]
it's not so much ability as attitude.
You master mathematics if you are
willing to try.
Outliers
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Work Hard
You Must
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Children who associate success with hard
work tend to have a “mastery-oriented
response” to challenging situations, while
children who see themselves as just plain
“smart” or “dumb,” or “good” or “bad” at
something, have a “learned helplessness
orientation.”
Josh Waitzkin
The Art of Learning
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Jim Stigler, UCLA Prof
The Japanese [teachers] want their
kids to struggle. [...] American
teachers, though, worked like waiters.
Whenever there was a struggle, they
wanted to move past it, make sure the
class kept gliding along. But you don't
learn by gliding.
The Teaching Gap
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Great companies did not
focus on what to do, but
rather what not to do and
what to stop doing.
Jim Collins
Good To Great
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Practice Deliberately
You Must
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The best people in any field are
those who devote the most
hours to what the researchers
call “deliberate practice”.
Geoffrey Colvin
What It Takes To Be Great
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For example: Simply hitting a bucket of balls
is not deliberate practice, which is why most
golfers don't get better. Hitting an eight-iron
300 times with a goal of leaving the ball within
20 feet of the pin 80 percent of the time,
continually observing results and making
appropriate adjustments, and doing that for
hours every day - that's deliberate practice.
Geoffrey Colvin
What It Takes To Be Great
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Understand that talent doesn’t
mean intelligence, motivation
or personality traits. It’s an
innate ability to do some
specific activity especially well.
Geoffrey Colvin
What It Takes To Be Great
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“
Geoffrey Colvin
Maybe we can't expect most people
to achieve greatness. It's just too
demanding. But the striking,
liberating news is that greatness isn't
reserved for a preordained few. It is
available to you and to everyone.
What It Takes To Be Great
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Ordered List
Thank you!
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John Nunemaker
Great Lakes Ruby Bash, Lansing MI
April 17, 2010
@jnunemaker