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ppl be ashamed of talking about sex, then have a زفة for two ppl who r about to have sex that night

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يكدرون يفرحون أكثر

The cannon shot (1670)
By Willem van de Velde the younger

It may seem natural to assume that these people who maintain intense practice schedules for years have some rare gift of willpower or “grit” or “stick-to-itiveness” that the rest of us just lack, but that would be a mistake for two very compelling reasons.
First, there is little scientific evidence for the existence of a general “willpower” that can be applied in any situation. There is no indication, for example, that the students who had enough “willpower” to study countless hours for the national spelling bee would show the same amount of “willpower” if they were asked to practice the piano or chess or baseball. In fact, if anything, the available evidence indicates that willpower is a very situation-specific attribute. People generally find it much easier to push themselves in some areas than in others. If Katie became a grandmaster after ten years of studying chess and Karl gave up on the game after six months, does that mean Katie had more willpower than Karl? Would it change your answer if I told you that Katie spent a year practicing the piano and then quit before she started chess, while Karl is now an internationally renowned concert pianist? This situational dependence calls into question the claim that some sort of generic willpower can explain an individual’s ability to sustain daily practice for months, years, and decades.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

But there is a bigger, second problem with the concept of willpower, one related to the myth of natural talent. Both willpower and natural talent are traits that people assign to someone after the fact: Jason is an incredible tennis player, so he must have been born with this natural talent. Jackie practiced the violin for years, several hours each day, so she must have incredible willpower. In neither case can we make this determination ahead of time with any likelihood of being right, and in neither case has anyone ever identified any genes that underlie these supposed innate characteristics, so there is no more scientific evidence for the existence of individual genes that determine willpower than there is for the existence of genes that are necessary for succeeding in chess or piano-playing.

صراحةً مبية حيل أترجم

اوكي خلصت الكتاب.
لطيف ومترابط وما يبيع أمل زائف أو توقعات عالية، رغم حسيته مرات يقترب من التنمية البشرية. بس عالأقل كلامه جان مدعوم بأبحاث حقيقية وما جان متفائل زيادة.

The book:
Peak, by Anders Ercisson & Robert Pool

الكاتب راد يوضّح 3 أشياء بالكتاب.

أولًا:
أنّ "الموهبة الفطرية" هي شيء غير حقيقي. اللي نسميه بالموهبة، هو الناتج النهائي لسنوات طويلة تم استثمارها بالتدريب والممارسة المُجهِدة والمملة أحيانًا. هي ببساطة؛ خبرة ومهارة تم تجميعها عبر سنوات من التدريب المصمم بعناية -من المتدرب بذاته أو من مدرب متخصص- لتطوير مهارات معينة والتخلص من نقاط الضعف الموجودة. (رغم أنّ المؤلف إعترف بوجود عاملَين جينيَين بمجال الرياضة مالهم علاقة بالمهارة والتدريب؛ هنّ الطول ووزن الجسم).

ثانيًا:
الكاتب راد يوضّح أنّ أكو عدة أشكال من التدريب ويبيّن أفضل نوع من بينهن، اللي سمّاه "Deliberate practice". جزء جبير من الكتاب جان مخصص لتوضيح مبادئ وأساسيات هذا النوع من التدريب وشلون نكدر نطبقه لهواي أشياء مثل الشطرنج، التعليم، الرياضة، وحتى مهارات الكتابة.

ثالثًا:
المؤلف هو بنفسه من كبار الباحثين بمجال "الخبرة expertise" وبالتالي كتابه جان مليء بالأبحاث (سواء اللي هو كتبها وشارك بيها، أو أبحاث لعلماء آخرين) وهالشي جان كلش لطيف لأن عرّفني على أبحاث مثيرة للإهتمام.

The awful cost of all we lost
As we looked the other way
We've paid the price of this cruel device
Till we've nothing left to pay

- The angry river

"I try all things, I achieve what I can"

-Ishmael, Moby Dick

"You complain of being lonely, but it's you who rejects the whole world."

- May I remind you, she became ill because of her father's death?

- and may I remind you all fathers die?