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    Max Out The Cause Card: The Omnipotence of Precursors

    April 21, 2011
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    If you want to get what you want, stop trying to get what you want.

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    All Batting All The Time: Ted Williams Teaches Us How To Learn

    April 15, 2011
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    All Batting All The Time: Ted Williams Teaches Us How To Learn

    Baseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million, widely considered the most “gifted” hitter of his time. “I remember watching one of his home runs from the bleachers of Shibe Park,” John Updike wrote in The New Yorker in 1960. “It went over the first baseman’s head and rose meticulously along a straight line and was still rising...

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    If You Have Time To Worry About When You’ll Get Good…

    February 24, 2011
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    …then you have time to focus on getting better. Worrying about whether or not you’re getting good is simply a sign that you still suck. So go suck less. No, shut up. And go suck less. You’re not especially dumb or smart. You’re just wasting your time and mine. Things tend to start going well once you quit worrying...

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    Stop Being Creative

    February 15, 2011
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    Passive listening doesn’t help, you say? Well, how are you supposed to play a song you’ve never heard? How are you supposed to do a Lady Gaga impression when you’ve never even heard her speak or sing? I’ll tell you how…you make it up. You get creative. You invent something new. And therein lies the problem. Japanese doesn’t want...

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    Patience

    February 9, 2011
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    Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is not static. Patience isn’t sitting down and shutting up — that’s being cooperative and docile to help driving parents. Patience is dynamic. Patience is active preparation. Patience is doing. If you’re not too preoccupied and too physically tired by active preparation to be worried, then you’re not being patient. You’re just being...

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    Don’t Ask Me For Advice…

    January 24, 2011
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    …as if I have all the right answers from the back of the Book of Life and Japanese. Most people don’t mess up by doing the wrong thing. They mess up by doing nothing. Sure, going to Japanese class seemed like the obvious answer. And you tried that. And it didn’t work. And now here I come telling you...

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