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About talent, giftedness and skills development
You have probably encountered some of the following sentences in your life: “Amy has a gift for languages. She is speaking without any effort.” “Tom is incredibly talented at painting. His brushstrokes are truly mesmerizing.” “He’s a natural-born ...
Introduction In my original article, The Myth of Natural Talent I challenged the widely held belief that talent is an innate, fixed trait. Drawing on the work of K. Anders Ericsson, I argued that deliberate practice plays a more critical role in achi...
How to Build It When You Think You Lack It
Why Some Domains Resist Improvement
source: Wikipedia The Challenge In one of my posts about talent, a reader posed what appeared to be a definitive counterexample to my argument. My first instinct wasn't to argue. It was to investigate. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this really is the pures...
A Pragmatic Approach to Talent
