How to be an expert. Try hard and strive to improve. Don't quit just because you're bad at it. Natural talent only makes up for the last 1% of being a world class expert. Backed up by a pretty graph and scientific research here.
Here's another post about being an expert. Do the things you're bad at even if they're not fun. Remember the fundamentals.
It turns out that new research shows that dull environments slow down or stop brain growth. It used to be thought that the brain doesn't grow new neurons, and we just have the ones we're born with. But that was shown by studying monkeys in caged environments. Some new research involved studying monkeys in natural environments with lots of toys and other stimulating things, and they grew more neurons. So the conclusion is something about not only being able to grow new neurons, but also that boring environments prevent the physical brain growth from happening.
Cool stuff needs to stop happening on the Internet while I'm sleeping. I always get caught up in checking it out during the morning and I'll never get out the door on time for school. This cool stuff is super awesome. Remember the Milk added tagging, searching, and smart lists. My brain is going crazy while thinking up all the new possibilities that are... umm... possible.
(after classes and playing around with the new RTM features)
Since spammers (and hopefully other people) loved my sic post, here's another word that I finally got fed up with not knowing and Googled the answer. Today's word is natch, which according to this Word of the Day for June 7, 1999 page is short for "naturally." So there you go.
I'm done with this semester of college. Woo hoo. Only 2 more to go. I came up with a new web site idea which I think is going to be good. I'll tell you guys more about it later, because I don't want to give the idea away so somebody else can steal it and do it better than me. It should be launching in January I hope.