It’s a common belief that the truly great ones—Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Wolfgang Mozart, Gary Kasparov, etc. have been blessed with tremendous innate talents that ordinary folks like you and me haven’t been given. It also happens to be dead wrong. Research in the past twenty years has shown quite conclusively that the notion of talent’s “chosen ones” is a myth. What the research on exceptional performance and expertise has shown is that… READ MORE

When your jeep first rolls through the plains in Africa, you are immediately dazzled by the muscle tone and vitality of the animals. As you watch a pride of female lions stalk zebras in the distance, you are mesmerized by their sleek, powerful bodies. With each step they take, their cut muscles ripple through their fur, while the scars on their bodies whisper of the battles that have brought them here. Their eyes reveal intensity unlike any… READ MORE