Chapter 92. Teach Them to Teach Themselves
If you want a man to be for you, never let him feel he is dependent on you. Make him feel you are in some way dependent on him.
—General George C. Marshall
Scott remembers a story that Mr. Mercado told him about the musical virtuoso Jascha Heifetz and the always unplayable Tchaikovsky violin concerto.
Heifetz’s teacher was the great German violinist Leopold Auer. Mercado said, “Auer himself could not play the Tchaikovsky violin concerto up to speed. It’d never been performed up to speed before Heifetz.”
Heifetz was the first one to perform this piece up to speed! And if Auer, his teacher, could not perform it up to speed, and he was teaching Heifetz, how then was Heifetz able to do it?
Some people ...
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