CNN's John Defterios talks about his career as a chess master. He says he didn't play casually because people confuse that with being intelligent. It reminds him of the way he learned five languages in his twenties, which took hours and hours to learn. The learning curve looks like an S but it slops upwards at the top: 9,000 out of 10,000 are spent on this part.

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