The further you move toward greatness, the more greatness demands from you. But
Tesla was never one to chase recognition—he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation. His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlim...
Studies of people with extraordinary abilities, like Ted Williams, have given rise to what Swedish psychologist Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the 10,000 hour rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardles...
He wirelessly lit over 200 lamps from a distance of over 25 miles, proving that electricity could be transmitted great distances through the air.
Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer.
Whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice.
Seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.
One common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.
Imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious
While his lab was under construction, Tesla studied the phenomenon of lightning, and made what he considered his most important discovery to date. He found that the earth was literally alive with elec...
Where the goal is the what, the purpose is the all-important why.
Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its pu...
I’ve asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. Of course it would. The cultural correlation is undeniable: we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the mor...
Hudson, a British psychologist that headed up Cambridge’s Research Unit of Intellectual Development in the sixties, compared IQ to basketball. If you’re five foot five, your prospects of becoming even...
Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.
Don’t confuse creativity and imagination with thinking either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason t...
An extra year of play against players younger than you is a huge advantage. Your body becomes bigger, stronger, and faster every day, giving you an opportunity to truly stand out from your birthday-ha...
There are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers—there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don’t. What is generally recognized as great talent is, in...
Illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.
Asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. Of course it would. The cultural correlation is undeniable: we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more lik...