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other books, says that she would never
have developed into such a bold
thinker had she not spent so much of
her childhood alone with books and
ideas. As a young boy, Charles Darwin
made friends easily but preferred to
spend his time taking long, solitary
nature walks. (As an adult he was no
different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he
wrote to the famous mathematician
who had invited him to a dinner party,
“I am very much obliged to you for
sending me cards for your parties, but I
am afraid of accepting them, for I
should meet some people there, to
whom I have sworn by all the saints in
Heaven, I never go out.”)
But exceptional performance depends
not only on the groundwork we lay
through Deliberate Practice; it also requires
the right working conditions.
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