What is the secret to success and Condi Rice is a concert-level pianist?

Turns out it's not natural-born talent but a lot of hard work.

What it takes to be great

Also, did you know that Secretary of State Condi Rice is also a concert-level pianist. Check out this article about polymaths and see the resume of a top-level executive of Citigroup who has "been, at varying points of his life, a brigadier general in the Army, a partner at Lehman Brothers, head of consulting at Bain, a Rhodes Scholar, and a student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, where he earned his Ph.D. Also: a Heisman Trophy winner (in 1958)"

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