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…as with any art, time and focus are required to cultivate the art of interviewing for talent.
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…talent is no guarantee of grit.
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…why do we assume that it is our talent, rather than our effort, that will decide where we end up in the long run?
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The ‘naturalness bias’ is a hidden prejudice against those who’ve achieved what they have because they worked for it, and a hidden preference for those whom we think arrived at their place in life because they’re naturally talented.
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By shining our spotlight on talent, we risk leaving everything else in the shadows…
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…mythologizing natural talent lets us all off the hook. It lets us relax into the status quo.
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Talent – how fast we improve in skill – absolutely matters. But effort factors into the calculation twice, not once.
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Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.
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With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.
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But against intuition, talents are not entirely genetic: the rate at which we develop any skill is also, crucially, a function of experience.
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