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...rocky start (see Happiness is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day) I was feeling fresh and confident. Once the season started, however, and I did a few actual races, I quickly realized that the little local events in New York State provided plenty of competition for my budding skill level. I'd finished in the middle of the pack a few times, but several times more toward the end, and once at the very, very end. The locals had put up a solid fight, my shortcomings were all clearly identified, and I was ready to call it a season...
...Rudenstine was by no means a passive president, friends and colleagues say. He was a master of persuasion and consensus-building, a useful skill when one must juggle the often-conflicting interests of Harvard’s tubs...
Indeed, there is perhaps no other collegiate sport that requires as much individual skill, team strategy, oneness with nature, and shear guts...
When it comes to other skills, such as math or music, there is virtually no evidence for learning windows at all. Children grasp things at different rates, and parents whose child can read by age 3 may thus conclude that they somehow threaded the teaching needle perfectly, introducing letters and words at just the right time. But the reality is often that they simply got lucky and had a kid who took a shine early on to a particular skill. "People took the notion of a critical period and misunderstood it to apply to all learning," says Dr. Sparrow...
...were well within the range of normal behavior for four-year-olds. And what about that adjective, anyway? Is a vice not sometimes a form of virtue? Cruelty never is, but arguing back? Is that being defiant--or spunky and independent? "Demanding attention" could be a natural and healthy skill to develop if you are in a room with 16 other kids...