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The famous piano player, Paderewski, surely had some natural gifts.  But he also would have understood Thomas Edison’s old line that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. As a boy, Paderewski sat at the piano for three hours every morning and three hours every evening.  Throughout his brilliant career, he kept up a rigorous schedule of daily practice. It was said that if he missed a single day, he noticed it.  If he missed two days, his critics noticed…