Comments on: Going for the gold: how to train like an Olympian

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[...] In the book, Outliers, The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about needing to practice a skill for 10,000. hours to achieve [...]

By: TracyK

TracyK — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:46:58 +0000

Great treatment of the pathway to excellence – I enjoyed it. The balance of inner work and outer work is an important one.

By: Michelle V. Rafter

Michelle V. Rafter — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:08:01 +0000

Robert: Thank you for the comment, your email, introducing yourself, and pointing that snippet from his obit out to me. Ah, to have the luxury to write but not publish. Hopefully he did a lot of it, and his family will share it all with the rest of us one day. Until then, I’m content to re-read For Esme – With Love and Squalor.

Michelle

By: Robert Earle Howells — Surefire Writing

Robert Earle Howells — Surefire Writing — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:18:38 +0000

Great stuff, Michelle. I especially appreciate and agree with your remark about karma. That awareness is catching on, and it may be the best side-effect of Web 2.0.

Here’s how I know we’re NOT, as you say, J.D. Salinger. This from the NY Times obit you link to:

“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”