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If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, you know that at the end of each “Words on well-being” column, we ask that you consider sending in any wellness-related ideas or aphorisms that inspire you (and which you feel might be inspiring to your colleagues). After our last column on the topic of perseverance, […]

Thomas Edison, in the process of inventing the light bulb, allegedly said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” In so musing, Edison anticipated the so-called “10,000-hour rule,” made famous in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers (2009), which argued that establishing mastery over a subject requires at least that many hours […]