[BasDirks]

"This development was mainly acquired through continuous voluntary confrontation with the challenge (read that sentence again and emphasis voluntary). It was first when I understood that, or felt like, I volunteered, that I was able to compete with a free mind."

Biggest take-away for me so far is the importance of the voluntary aspect. He seems to be saying that when you fully say yes to hardship, it becomes easier to bear.

His mental fortitude provides a nice backdrop to all the UX guru's coming out of the woodworks to comment on an HTML page with a link to a PDF.

[mingusrude]

Last autumn there was a podcast done with chess world champion Magnus Carlsen (in Norwegian) and one interesting thing he says is that he practices a lot but only when he wants to otherwise it's meaningless. Of course there is a difference with skating and memorizing chess lines but the take-away is still there, if it's going to work you have to enjoy it.