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stopping while you’re ahead
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Britton Gildersleeve
My knees hurt. They join my poor arthritic hands (which look more like I remember my grandmother’s than my mother’s…). I’m cleaning up for family visiting this weekend, and I overdid. I do that a lot. And I suspect you do, as well. Here’s the deal: it’s counterproductive. Really. We think: I can just finish this…
more on mastery, failure, and play
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Britton Gildersleeve
Lately my grandmothers — well, all my old ladies — have been whispering platitudes to me as I sleep. Yesterday’s was practice makes perfect. Today’s is if at first you don’t succeed… You know the rest! And yet… There’s a great deal of truth in those old sayings. Certainly this one. I confess: I HATE HATE HATE…
mastery, creativity, and letting go
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Britton Gildersleeve
Recently I read a piece on integration of skills. (And yep, I read that kind of stuff…) It was taking the Malcolm Gladwell approach — that you need a heckuvva long time doing something before you master it. Gladwell’s assertion is that it’s a minimum of 10,000 hours. Again, a lotta practice… One of my favourite…
Oklahoma: a Middle Path relationship
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’m a native Okie. Most of the time, I’m very proud of my 2nd generation roots — not common for many Okies, many of whom have moved here during various oil booms, or for school, or whatever. My grandparents weren’t in the Rush, and I’m proud of that, too, as it was a rip. Where…
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