What Cal Newport calls deliberate practice is nicely defined by Seinfeld. This level of work ethic is required to be excellent. Interviewer (Graham Bensinger): I think it’s 1993, Adam Sandler’s opening for you in Boston. You start a bit and somebody yells from the crowd, and how does it affect you? Jerry Seinfeld: I had this amazing bit about weddings. It was like, uh, it was fantastic. It was so long it covered everything. It was a great bit, and I worked on and worked on, and I love developing and polishing every little detail of a bit, so it takes me forever—sometimes years, years. Um, I was talking to Chris Rock yesterday, and he was telling me about his … Read More
