(1)if great achievers share anything,said simonton,it is an unrelenting drive to succeed."there is a tendency to think that they endowed with something super-normal,"he explained."but what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes. it is a difference in degree.greatness is built upon tremendous amonuts of study,practice and devotion.'
He cited wintion churchill,britain's prime minister during World War II,as an example of a risk-taker who would never give up .Thrust into office when his country's morale was at its lowest, Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people. In a speach following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, he inspired the nation when he said ,"We shall not flag or fail.we shall go on to the end...We shall never surrender.'
He cited wintion churchill,britain's prime minister during World War II,as an example of a risk-taker who would never give up .Thrust into office when his country's morale was at its lowest, Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people. In a speach following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, he inspired the nation when he said ,"We shall not flag or fail.we shall go on to the end...We shall never surrender.'