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This brings us to the question of what deliberate practice actually requires. Its core components are usually identified as follows: (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific skill you’re trying to improve or an idea you’re trying to master; (2) you receive feedback so you can correct your approach to keep your attention exactly where it’s most productive. The first component is of particular importance to our discussion, as it emphasizes that deliberate practice cannot exist alongside distraction, and that it instead requires uninterrupted concentration. As Ericsson emphasizes, “Diffused attention is almost antithetical to the focused attention required by deliberate practice” (emphasis mine).
It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of pregnant dot hanging in a dark, boundless void. But there is no space, no darkness. The singularity has no “around” around it. There is no space for it to occupy, no place for it to be. We can't even ask how long it has been there—whether it has just lately popped into being, like a good idea, or whether it has been there forever, quietly awaiting the right moment. Time doesn't exist. There is no past for it to emerge from. And so, from nothing, our universe begins.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
It has been estimated that upward of 10% of the American public have significant narcissistic personality features. Most major psychoanalytic theorists see a continuity between normal narcissism and pathological narcissism. The extremity of the narcissistic personality disorder illuminates normal narcissism. In the DSM IV, 1994, the overall description of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a “pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood, and present in a variety of contexts.” Including five (or more) of the following, the person with the NPD: 1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements). 2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love. 3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions). 4. Requires excessive admiration. 5. Has a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations). —American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 669
Dangerous Charisma
Jerrold Post, Stephanie Doucette
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