Kathy’s recent post, Creating Passionate Renters got me thinking about the whole 180 thing. And then today, I saw this terrific post on 43folders.com…: Patching your personal suck. I realized there a couple of different ways of looking at the whole “I don’t want to suck” thing with 180 in mind: there’s the “turn the negative into a positive” – as in Kathy’s post where the apartment complex has turned owning a dog from a renter’s negative to a renter’s positive; and then there’s the “how do I work my way out of sucking” perspective, reflected in Merlin’s post on 43folders.
Let’s start with the “how do I work my way out of sucking” thing. According to Richard Restak, you don’t have to suck. New brain research says that you can get pretty darn good at anything you really put your mind to if you 1) focus on it enough and 2) practice a lot. He talked to a lot of people who have studied “prodigies” in various areas (e.g. music, athletics, chess, and even math) and found that the really, really good people spend most of their time practicing. And not just practicing the fun things either; they practice everything, hours and hours more than people who are just good at those things.
…excerpt from: headrush.typepad.com…