"Child prodigies rarely become adult geniuses
who change the world." So says Adam Grant in the Points section in the Dallas
Morning News. The thing that holds them back is that they don't learn to be
original. Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new! "The gifted
learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own
original scores. They focus their energy on consuming existing scientific
knowledge, not producing new insights. They conform to codified rules, rather
than inventing their own. Read Rabbi Leynor’s complete blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-does-it-take-to-raise-creative.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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