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The ability to work hard seems to be even more talent-based than being smart. Executive functions [1] are supposed to be highly heritable, more so than the inte
by bd 17y ago
The ability to work hard seems to be even more talent-based than being smart. Executive functions [1] are supposed to be highly heritable, more so than the intelligence [2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions
[2] http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/05/99_genetic_individual_differen.php http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/05/99_ge...
- RK 17y agoOne of the guys I went to grad school with a was just an obsessive worker. He was the kind of person who could not sleep if a problem was left unsolved. I remember thinking that it would take more effort for him to work as (relatively) little as I did, than for me to work as hard as he did. He also finished a couple years earlier than most of the people we started with...
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