Sublime

Mastery describes our innate desire to become competent at our chosen skill.

Figure 2. Fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence curves

Stan Davis,

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Bethe, whom Oppenheimer chose over Teller to head the Theoretical Division of the lab, was equally effusive in Oppenheimer’s praise. “He understood immediately when he heard anything, and fitted it into the general scheme of things and drew the right conclusions,” Bethe told Rhodes. “There was just nobody else in that laboratory who came even close

Exercise Four: What Are You Good At?

You can think of your aptitudes as both general and personal. As human beings we are all born with more or less the same basic kit.

The educational theorist David Kolb, for example, believes that one can learn by being a converger (one who is strong in the practical application of ideas, approaches learning in an unemotional fashion, and has relatively narrow interests), a diverger (one who has a strong imagination, is good at generating ideas and seeing things from different