The following are excerpts from “Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else,” by Geoffrey Colvin and from “Keys to Deliberate Practice,” by Jeff Cobb.  Comments in brackets are mine. ~greebo Greatness isn’t handed to anyone; it requires a lot of hard work. Yet that isn’t enough, since many people work hard [...]

In an article from Poker News concerning the Barney Frank Bill and Commerce Casino’s opposition to it, Commerce representative Tom Malkasian compared operators like PokerStars and Full Tilt to a drug cartel, stating that if Congress were ever to decide to legalize marijuana, “certainly no one would suggest that the first federal permits to sell [...]