'Napoleon Sonata' by Niccolo Paganini

'Love Duet' by Niccolo Paganini

“Those who tell the stories rule the world” -Hopi Indian

“Those who tell the stories rule society” -Plato

One Day Every One In The World Will Completely Forget You Ever Existed

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The average IQ of scientists is certainly higher than the average IQ of the general population, but among scientists there is no correlation between IQ and scientific productivity. Indeed, a number of Nobel Prize–winning scientists have had IQs that would not even qualify them for Mensa, an organization whose members must have a measured IQ of at least 132, a number that puts you in the upper 2 percentile of the population. Richard Feynman, one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century, had an IQ of 126; James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, had an IQ of 124; and William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the invention of the transistor, had an IQ of 125.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

Deliberate practice is all about the skills. You pick up the necessary knowledge in order to develop the skills; knowledge should never be an end in itself.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson