Monthly Archives: June 2013

Deliberate practice on reflection

June 27, 2013

I just finished reading a book called Talent is Overrated. The main premise is that the traditional way we think about talent is misguided. We tend to think of those who are talented as having special powers from birth. No matter how hard we mere mortals work, we cannot compete against those who are “chosen.” In reality, success actually comes from a combination of a lot of practising (at least 10,000 hours), a strict deliberate practice regime, and continual practice […]

June 24, 2013

I couldn’t think of anywhere else to post this. I was doing research on war and peace quotes the other day. These two were one of my favourites: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. and There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – […]

Tiffany in five sentences…

Tiffany prefers to spend her days globetrotting and living out of a backpack. She is deeply intrigued, frustrated, and inspired by international development work, especially in food security, education policy, and citizen agency issues. One day, she hopes to convince the world economic system to work in favour of the marginalized and the environment. One of her identities is being a graduate from the Global Resource Systems program in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. She aims to write posts that will make her cringe in ten years on this blog.