Am I a genius?

[caravel]

You know, I feel right at home in this thread because as a 3 year old I used to like to play with my rattle? Any more under 7s rattle champions here?

[The Stranger]

You know, I feel right at home in this thread because as a 3 year old I used to like to play with my rattle? Any more under 7s rattle champions here?

[Mithrandir]

You know, I feel right at home in this thread because as a 3 year old I used to like to play with my rattle? Any more under 7s rattle champions here?

Maybe someone here wrestled with rattlesnakes at the age of 4...
or had a rattlefactory set up at age 5?

Or maybe, he was a rattle-instructor for toddlers at age 1?

[gollum]

originally posted by Mithrandir
Not at all, it was a response to Kadagarava's post, seeing how he was a master at age 2.

I'm actually convinced that to excel at something you need at least 10.000 hours of practice. There's a study which shows this to be true for many things (playing the violin for example).

What studies won't tell you is that the process has flats and slopes.

During slopes more or less one has not fully taken in elements that will take him to the next level, and those times seem to last forever and are quite frustrating. If one perseveres however, comes a point that suddenly a lot of progress is made because not only each individual block is assimilated, but also they are all combined into one's skill/style and this gives exponential progress at that moment. The reality however is that this explosion was being slowly built while one was having a frustrating/no progress time.

Also hours are one thing; how you invest them is another. Some modes of training are better for some people, others for other people.

Coaching also plays a big part as well as self coaching, which is why intuition needs to be switched on and ego thrown periodically out of the window and all these are tough parts of the process.

Originally posted by Asai Nagamasa
You know, I feel right at home in this thread because as a 3 year old I used to like to play with my rattle? Any more under 7s rattle champions here?