What it takes to be great

What it takes to be great

Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work

 

Excellence is Free for Everyone

In our society and culture there is a fatalistic yet popular idea: you have to be gifted (specific innate gifts) in order to achieve excellence in a certain field. But latest researches deny this awful idea. Why awful? Because it may make you don’t start up at all or quit too early in the field you like most. You may either think you aren’t gifted for what you would like to do for the rest of your life or if you started up and encounter inevitable obstacles and bumps you may conclude you just aren’t gifted and give up.

Sleet Storm in Space

Astronomers are pretty sure that most of the water on Earth — and the water that probably flowed billions of years ago on the surfaces of Mars, and maybe Venus as well — came from icy comets, raining down on the newborn planets. As for where the comets came from, it’s long been assumed that they formed directly out of clouds of interstellar gas and dust. That’s why scientists are so interested in them: by studying comets, they figured they could get a handle on material that’s been unchanged for billions of years.

Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of all time

A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. We came up with a selection of the Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of all time.

The 10 Biggest Mistakes Freelancers Make, and How to Avoid Them

No freelancer is perfect – not me, not you, not even the best of us. We all make mistakes, all the time, and if we’re smart, we learn from them.

Some mistakes, however, are more crucial than others, and if we can correct or avoid those mistakes, we’ll survive. We’ll still make other mistakes, but they won’t hurt as much.