{"id":53,"date":"2014-11-15T07:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-11-15T07:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:35:31","slug":"learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter recommended that I read <em>The Talent Code<\/em> by Daniel Coyle. One of the major themes of this book is that talent and skill are the product of high motivation, persistence, and a humble willingness to address the obstacles that block the path forward. Other factors play a role but are much less important than people have imagined. Raw talent is almost never the key. He even used Mozart as an example of this thesis.<\/p>\n<p>As I read the book, it occurred to me how perfect this life is as a laboratory in which to develop &#8220;talent.&#8221; As Elder H. Ross Workman once taught my Young Adult Ward, &#8220;the willing go to heaven.&#8221; He meant those willing to keep the celestial law, but I also think it means those willing to accept the difficulties of life and cheerfully, persistently learn the lessons they teach. This is very different from the image of the &#8220;towering intellect&#8221; or &#8220;genius&#8221; usually presented as the source of human wisdom. Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s \u00dcbermensch is as fictitious as Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein. The willing go to heaven and life is the perfect prep-school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter recommended that I read The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. One of the major themes of this book is that talent and skill are the product of high motivation, persistence, and a humble willingness to address the obstacles that block the path forward. Other factors play a role but are much less important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}