There is much more to exceptional performance than a 10,000 hours practice or burning endless nights. It is the intention in the deliberate practice that matters ultimately.

The following paragraphs extracted from James Clear’s recent post sums it up well:

The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It’s the person who knew what to look for.

Cultivating that capacity to seek what’s significant, always willing to question whether you’re on the right track, that’s what education is going to be about, whether it’s using computers and internet, or pencil and paper and books