the best years of his life writing impromptu speeches.”10 A natural? Perhaps. A naturally disciplined hard-working man! And so it goes, whatever the area of life. Thomas Edison came up with the incandescent light after a thousand failures. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. SAMUEL BECKETT Mozart chocked up thirty-five hundred hours of practice before his sixth birthday. He had practiced ten thousand hours by his teens. A prodigy? Not at all! Mozart’s brief thirty-five
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