Dance is a challenging activity. There will always be someone who has started learning at a younger age, or someone who learned the basics of the dance quicker, or someone who went to more events and hence improved more than you. For those times when you feel discouraged because you can’t make up that time,… Continue Reading
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Motivation and Your Future Self
Research on the development of expert-level skill is clear: there is no magic talent gene. Instead, talent is the accumulation of thousands of hours of deliberate practice, in which would-be experts continually push themselves beyond their comfort zone in order to develop new competencies. As we saw in our discussion of myelination, the development of… Continue Reading