It I would have read this prior to reading Geoff Colvin's Talent is Over-Rated, I would have really enjoyed this book. However, it is so similar--using a number of the same examples even--that I kept wondering why it was written. For the record, I think Colvin's is a better and more interesting...
People have been doing it for more than 1300 years. James Bond did it. So did Kirk and Spock. Ben Franklin was addicted to it. Harry Potter did it the wizard way, but never once did Doyle ever directly say Sherlock Holmes did. I picked up The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, expecting it to b...
In fact, we have far more control over our genes—-and far less control over our environment—-than we think.Are [people] conceived with the capacity to play a number of qualitatively different developmental tunes—in other words, to live alternative lives?—Patrick BatesonBy now, the reader has real...
Anderssen, whose g1 Rook was under attack from Kieseritzky’s c5 Bishop, did a shocking and unsettling thing: he ignored it, instead launching a series of moves that turned an insignificant practice game into something immortal. 17. Nd5 (White Knight to d5) In moving his Knight further up the boar...