Test Yourself
The accumulation of new experience, whether you choose it or it chooses you, is a ticket to growing and improving. It is by repeatedly testing yourself, by taking the attitude that you will do your best to rise to every important occasion, however big, that you outgrow the unfortunate legacies of childhood and grow as a leader and as a person. At the neurological level, this continual process takes advantage of the plasticity of the brain and literally rewires it.
We come into this world equipped with 100 billion brain cells—as many as there are stars in the Milky Way—ready to be fired up. It is the alchemy of experience that turns this malleable universe of potential into a unique human intellect, personality, and memory. From ...
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