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children. Research is clear on this point: learning works best when math teachers first go through an example, in some detail, before letting their students tackle similar problems on their own.

Pianists who win international piano competitions tend to do so when they’re around thirty years old, and thus they’ve probably put in about twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand hours of practice by then; ten thousand hours is only halfway down that path.

There is no more effective way to prepare children for lives animated by love than to provide them with a loving childhood.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.

Maria Montessori’s schools form the most celebrated example of the progressive philosophy in action; Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, both attended Montessori schools and credit the Montessori ethos as a contributor to their success.

K. Anders Ericsson. He was a psychology professor at Florida State University and the author of an article titled “Exceptional Memorizers: Made, Not Born.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory169, where the difficulty of the challenge must increase along with the skill set of the user.