iCal Can’t Put More Hours in the Day

I am a big Malcolm Gladwell fan. That said, I am not a huge fan of his latest book, Outliers. However, there is one idea that he talks about that I found really interesting. Gladwell develops this idea called the “10,000 Hour Rule.” Essentially, the idea is that to get good at something, to get [...]

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Muscle Memory (and Forgetfulness)

Last class, we started with a very well-known variation – the Bluebird variation. In ballet, variations are solo dances (though more than one person can perform them at once, of course) with traditional choreography. The bluebird variation is from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty. Long story short, the princess does a dance with a bluebird. The variation [...]

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