Full version Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody

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HardCover. Pub Date: October 2008 Pages: 224 Publisher: Penguin Group. (USA) Incorporated Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek. bestsellerAsked to explain why a few people truly excel. Most people offer one of two answers of The first is hard work. Yet we all know plenty of hard workers who have been doing the same job for years or decades without becoming great. The other possibility is that the elite possess an innate talent for excelling in their field. We assume that Mozart was born with an astounding gift for music. and Warren Buffett carries a gene for illiant investing. The trouble is. scientific evidence doesn t support the notion that specific natural talents make great performers.According to distinguished journalist Geoff Colvin. both the hard work and natural talent camps are wrong. What really makes the difference is a highly specific kind of effort-deliberate p...

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