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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Prepping for the test is not like an athlete training. Prepping for the test is like an athlete training to handle a specific metric that has no bearing in the game. For example, a football player figures out how to trim 1/10th of a second off the time for the 40 yard dash by diving the last 1 yard. It does not make him a better player, but makes him look like a better player.[/quote]

With your logic the great athletes of our time never prepped for tasks in their sport.  They were simply born great and endowed with talent.  EG, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird.  Why these men would have been great and accomplished in their sport without all the [b]drill [/b]   .... shooting shot after shot even after the lights were out and dribbling around obstructions blindfolded.  Indeed, Michael Phelps would have won all those Gold medals (because of the swimming genes) ... and not drilling away in the pool for 6 hours a day over the last 15 years.

All these genetically endowed athletes somehow forget to heed ... drill and kill ... will bring bad tidings and is wrong, just like with intellectual activities.  One wonders why some of our greatest and most genetically endowed and gifted athletes work harder (drilling) than average slugs.  After all it should be unnecessary since these guys were born gifted.
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