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When that blue flame is ignited within a person, it is a powerful force in getting you where you want to go.
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Research now backs up [the] belief that whom you associate with is crucial to who you become.
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…finding a talented, experienced mentor who is willing to invest the time and effort to develop you as a person and a professional is far more important than making career decisions based purely on salary or prestige.
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Lectures are not always the best method of learning, and they are not enough to develop students into lifelong learners.
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By investing in learning and problem solving, we can develop our passions – and build the skills necessary to do the work and lead the lives we find worthwhile.
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…great performers never allow themselves to reach the automatic, arrested-development stage in their chosen field. This is the effect of continual deliberate practice – avoiding automaticity.
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Sometimes excellent performers see more by developing better and faster understanding of what they see.
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Building and developing knowledge is one of the things that deliberate practice accomplishes.
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Constantly trying to extend one’s abilities in a field requires amassing additional knowledge, and staying at it for years develops the critical connections that organize all that knowledge and make it useful.
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A mental model is never finished. Great performers not only possess highly developed mental models, they are also always expanding and revising those models.
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