I really enjoy a good hard boiled egg. One whose yolk is orange instead of green and whose white is springy instead of firm. They’re really easy too. Leave the eggs out until they come to room temperature (or you could put them in warm water for a while to speed up the process). This [...]
If there is one thing I wish I had known when I was a kid it would be how to get good at doing something. I always believed that you got good at something by a combination of talent and desire. Unfortunately that is wrong. I’m going to try to dispel that belief and show you how to excel at your chosen pastime.
The first step to becoming good at something is to really that you CAN become good at it. Our society believes deeply in the importance of talent, but the interesting thing about talent is that it doesn’t appear to actually exist. What I mean is that there are people who’s life work it is to look into talent, how it occurs etc. And guess what? They’ve never found it. There is always a practical explanation about why so and so was so good at music or sport or whatever. Now there is something I will call capacity. If you want to be a world class sprinter you pretty much have to be descended from a certain tribe in Kenya. If you want to play in the NBA it helps to be tall. If you want to be an astro-physicist you need a certain IQ. But the good news is that for 95% of the things we want to do even capacity isn’t a limiting factor.