If you want, Anything is possible

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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With self-discipline most anything is Possible

Therefore Roosevelt

The most famous, and notorious, study demonstrating the power of early deliberate practice on success in chess was conducted by Laszlo Polgar, a Hungarian psychologist who, in the 1960s, published a book titled Bring Up Genius! The book argued that with enough hard work, parents could turn any child into an intellectual prodigy. When he wrote the book, Polgar was single and childless, and thus in no position to test his theory himself, but he set out to change that, winning the heart of a Hungarian-speaking foreign-language teacher named Klara who was living in Ukraine but was persuaded to move to Budapest by Polgar's letters, which detailed how together they would raise a family of geniuses. And then, amazingly, they did just that. Laszlo and Klara had three girls, Susan, Soﬁa, and Iudit and Laszlo homeschooled them all in an academic program that focused almost exclusively on chess (though the girls also learned several foreign languages, including Esperanto). Each girl began studying chess before her ﬁfth birthday, and they were all soon playing eight to ten hours each day. Susan, the oldest, won her ﬁrst tournament at age four. At ﬁfteen, she became the top-rated female chess player in the world, and in 1991, when she was twenty-one, she became the ﬁrst female grand master. Her success was an impressive conﬁrmation of her father’s contention that geniuses are made, not born, and Susan wasn’t even the best chess player in the family. That was Iudit, the youngest, who became a grand master at ﬁfteen, breaking Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest person to claim the title. Judit's overall chess ranking peaked in 2005, when she was the eighth-highest-ranked player in the world. with a rating of 2735; she is now universally considered to be the best female chess player ever to walk the planet. (Soﬁa was pretty good too; her top rating was 2505, at which point she was the sixth-best female player in the world, a stunning accomplishment for anyone but a Polgar.)

From How Children Succeed, Paul Tough

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Well if you want to be like everybody you know a bit about many things and are a normal person. If you want to be special you put the hours and the focus. One question i don't know is who is happier? I would guess that the focus/dedicated is busy and occupied and since people love to excel in something you are definitely very happy. If you do many things , not good in nothing, watch a lot of Tv, tried a lot of sports, study many subjects without any focus or passion i guess you are just drifting.