Belligerati

This is one of those things that I think a lot of us have suspected for a long time. I know that in school I always looked at some portion of my classmates who did better than me with disdain because it was obvious to me that they were doing it through hard work and discipline. After all, any fool can do that. The scary thing is that I was only being half sarcastic.

Though I am absolutely sure that effort is more important to grades than intelligence, I also often have to ask a few other classically rrebellious qquestions. Are grades measuring the right things? How much is a brilliant moment worth? I know that in my field when I have a smart day, or even hour I can often clear as many problems as days of drudgery would normally overcome. I think that as automation becomes more and more prevalent this will become more common. After all, if you can figure out the best way to do something, the computer will do the rest.

That said, expertise generally does more to make you brilliant in a subject than, well brilliance. and as it turns out you become an expert through... Hard work and self discipline. ( http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945&pageNumber=3&catID=2 )

So with that in mind, I would like to throw out a link to one of my favorite authors about the nature of, and the way to develop self-discipline:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline/

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