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...While 10 years is a necessary minimum to achieve expertise in most fields, it doesn't guarantee success. As Anders Ericsson writes in the introduction to the 901-page Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2006), "The number of years of experience in a domain is a poor predictor of attained performance." Ericsson, 60, is a professor at Florida State who moved to the U.S. from his native Sweden in 1976 to study with Simon, co-author of the seminal chess paper. (Simon went on to win a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on decision-making.) Today...
...Memorial Church is lit with candles as a few dozen students file in, taking their seats in the pews usually reserved for the church’s choir. The 9 p.m. service starts, and hymns fill the church. With a few chords hanging in the air, Rev. Jonathan C. Page ’02 takes his place at the lectern to deliver his homily...
...Page has eschewed traditional chaplain’s raiments, preferring an Oxford shirt and jeans. And as he begins to describe his personal experience with Lent as a teenager, Page moves from behind the lectern and paces Oprah-style before the semi-circle, exhorting the students to translate the liturgical season of fasting and prayer to their daily lives...
...wake up 15 minutes early and meditate before class?” Page asks. “Or try fasting...
...Century, who as a Senate adviser handled issues of military intervention in the Balkans and Somalia. And one of Obama's top campaign advisors, Susan Rice, has in the course of her work at the Brookings Institution produced, with Stewart Patrick of the Center for Global Development, a 50-page index of weak states that ranks 141 developing countries according to 20 factors such incidence of coups, GDP growth and primary school completion. The idea is to define state weakness in a way that identifies problem countries, and shows which areas in them need the most attention...