[SamAdams76]

When I saw this article, I just had to post it. Because I have lived it. I'm not the smartest or most talented guy in the world but I have been able to rise to the top in my workplace on account of discipline. Setting goals for myself and getting things done, one small task at a time.

[GSlob]

All wrong: it is possible to ace an otherwise difficult university without becoming recognizable by a librarian or even without knowing where the library is. But it takes creative approach. May one Carl Friedrich Gauss serve as an example: in his grade school years a pedantic teacher told the class to add all whole numbers from 1 to, IIRC, 100. And while everybody else was busily applying themselves with truly Teutonic persistence, young Carl (aged below 10 at the time) derived a simple combinatorial formula X=N x (N+1)/2 and came up with a correct answer within a minute. A fair warning: it is very difficult to be a Gauss.

[RileyD, nwJ]

Really enjoyed the post. Also enjoyed the comments by fellow posters that offered some balance.

If you would like to read a short article that goes along with the same line of thinking try Chess & Basketball? Chess and Boxing? The correlations for achieving excellence are amazing!

RileyD, nwJ