The Roseto Mystery Summary

Introduction: The Roseto Mystery: The Roseto Mystery brought about one strange observation that actually transformed the perspective of any people. When Stewart Wolf, a physician, conducted a study on the relationship between the citizens of Roseto and heart disease. He took up all of their medical histories and did blood work as well as EKGs. He found that no one under fifty-five has died of heart attack or showed signs of heart disease, which was surprising. He further studied the social life throughout the city and found that there was no suicide, alcoholism, or drug addiction, and very little crime. There was no evidence of the citizens of Roseto as being drastically different in aspects such as diet, exercise, genes, and location. Wolf

He uses an example of Bill Joy and highlights how he began to start his passion at a really early age. He then moves on to a group of musician and classified them into three groups, noting that the best of the groups started practicing their instrument at the age of 5 and consistently practiced until present day. It was concluded that in order to becomes master or succeed in what they are doing, the magic number for true expertise is ten thousand hours. He comes to the statement that distinguishes one person from the next is how hard they work. People at the top don’t work harder or much harder than everyone else, they work much much harder. He mentions that practice isn’t something you do once and you’re good, but it’s the thing that makes you good. He goes on to describe the stories of other prodigies or well known people and connects them with having over ten thousand hours of practice and experience in their specific

The introduction was the explanation of a study of why the town of Roseto does not have link to heart disease. After doing many studies, research’s couldn’t find anything and I really like that at that point, I was curious at to what could possibly set this town apart from others in the sense that they didn’t have any kind to heart disease. Taking a look into their social lives, it was concluded that the way they “created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating then from the pressure of the modern world”(page 9). Essentially the Rosetans were healthy because of where they were from and the world they had created for themselves. That really got me into the book because it got me thinking about how caught up I am in staying up to date with the latest things and fitting in with the latest social norms and the fact that they didn’t pay attention to them and lived happy lies really stuck to me. It made me kind of sad to realize how much I gave into the social aspect of the world and how the community I surround myself with isn’t always the best one.The introduction makes he waded look beyond the individual to see what they surround themselves with and their individual choices because essentially that is what makes up a person’s