Counting the stars…
Something worth posting. This is from “The Rule of Four” by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. Jen had me borrow the book after I finished the ever-popular but hard-to-get-a-copy-of (at least for me) “The Da Vinci Code.” Still stuck on Chapter Two though - probably be reading this again during the Christmas break:
“… The magic of Paul’s intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I’ve ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down. To count a hundred million stars, he told me once, at the rate of one per second, sounds like a job that no one could possibly complete in a lifetime. In reality, it would only take three years. The key is focus, a willingness not to be distracted. And that is Paul’s gift: an intuition of just how much a person do slowly.”
Another proof that, it takes more than IQ to succeed - and something that I always keep on forgetting.
