{"id":3398,"date":"2013-03-08T02:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2013-03-10T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:33:41","slug":"ugtalentfactories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Greatness \u2013 Page 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE TALENT FACTORIES<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Something crazy happened to violinists in the twentieth century.\u00a0 They got better and faster than their peers had been in previous centuries.<\/p>\n

How did this happen?\u00a0 And how have runners and swimmers gotten so much faster, and chess and tennis players gotten so much more skillful?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an explanation, a simple and a good one, and it is this: some people are training harder — and smarter — than before.\u00a0 We\u2019re better at the endeavors we undertake because we\u2019ve figured out how to become<\/em> better.<\/p>\n

Meadowmount<\/a> is a remote, rustic classical-music camp in New York\u2019s Adirondacks where students cover a year\u2019s worth of material in seven weeks\u2014a 500 percent increase in learning velocity.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Part summer camp, part music school, and part boot camp, the school is strict, austere, and responsible for creating some of the top string players in the world. Alumni include Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman<\/a>.<\/p>\n