Something true...

I have been doing research for Dr. Shoup for that last year and a half, reading many books, journals and periodicals. In my time reading these things and learning to ghost write for him, I usually am interested in the material but rarely inspired. Well, today I was creating a power point presentation on the Four Principles of Enduring Success by Christian Stadler from the Harvard Business Review.

I came across this quote and it has inspired great perseverace for my senior recital. Take a gander and chew on this for a while:

"To people who have never reached a national or international level of competition, it may appear that excellence is simply the result of practicing daily for years or even decades. However, living in a cave does not make you a geologist. Not all practice makes perfect. You need a particular kind of practice—deliberate practice—to develop expertise. When most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do. Deliberate practice is different. It entails considerable, specific, and sustained efforts to do something you can’t do well—or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you want to become."