What Is Success? (and The Importance of Grit)

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I think there is a gene for being able to devote 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to something.

Or cultural, as in Tiger Moms break down the immediate gratification tendencies.

I think its worth exploring the rate of change in software development affording the time for mastery except in extreme specialization (yes you can spend a whole life on high transaction and OS development where things remain more stable).

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