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Other uses Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also an aimed for standard of performance.
History
The Ancient Greeks had a concept of arete (excellence)|arete which meant an outstanding fitness for purpose. This occurs in the works of Aristotle and Homer . Aristotle once said. "We are what we repeatedly do . . . excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Capodagli, B., & Jackson, L. (2007). The disney way; harnessing the management secrets of disney in your company. New York, New York, United States of America: McGraw-Hill books.Another related concept was eudaimonia which was the happiness which resulted from a life well-lived, being prosperous and fulfilled. The equivalent concept in Muslim philosophy is ihsan .
Practice makes perfect
Studies have shown that the most important way to achieve excellent performance in fields such as sport, music, professions and scholarship is to practice (learning method)|practice . Achievement of excellence in such fields commonly requires approximately 10 years of dedication, comprising about 10,000 hours of effort.citation |url= http://books.google.co.uk/books? id=lj19AAAAMAAJ |title=The road to excellence: the acquisition of expert performance in the arts and sciences, sports, tacos and games |author=Karl Anders Ericsson |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-8058-2231-1
