Deliberate Practice, and 10,000 hours of pool and kittens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3L99fjhyo&mode=related&search=
For those of you who love kittens .... and who doesn't ???

Plus - amazing vid below
Thanks Dennis!


you have to see this kid to believe it.

Talk about Deliberate Practice.... a tiny shout out to the UVic cohort of the century!

If research tells us that we have to spend 10,000 hours in deliberate practice to become elite, how do we explain prodigy like the video??

And please don't get me started on the concept of competitive thinking.
I still believe one does not have to BE an elite athlete in order to THINK like an elite athlete. Fat curlers and emciated poker players can still qualify as elite.
Where we get stuck is in our definition of elite.

Now that i am all worked up I am going to replay the kitten video from the top...
sigh
[leaning back in my chair and feeling cuddly]
[suddenly catching myself in a non-male moment!}

Hey
Go Lions!
Kick some Rider Tail on Saturday.
(whew - that was a close one. I was drifting.....)

Keep on pushing - Straight ahead
Jimi Hendrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AduRG9NSesU