Book Titles

Talent is Overrated
What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

By Geoff Colvin

Year Published: 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-59184-224-8
Categories: Achievement, Skills, Talent

204 Quotes Found

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Talent is Overrated:

Occasionally people actually get worse with experience.

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Talent is Overrated:

The research confirms that merely putting in the years isn’t much help to someone who wants to be a great performer.

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Talent is Overrated:

Great performance is in our hands far more than most of us ever suspected.

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Talent is Overrated:

The factor that seems to explain the most about great performance is something the researchers call deliberate practice. Exactly what that is and isn’t turns out to be extremely important.

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Talent is Overrated:

Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works. More of it equals better performance. Tons of it equals great performance.

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Talent is Overrated:

In every industry worldwide, businesses have to perform at the highest standard, and then get continually better, just to be competitive. Great performance is becoming more valuable.

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Talent is Overrated:

Contemporary athletes are superior not because they’re somehow different but because they train themselves more effectively. That’s an important concept for us to remember.

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Talent is Overrated:

…the standard of what we do with what we’ve got has simply risen tremendously.

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Talent is Overrated:

…human beings haven’t changed. But people have learned how to perform much, much better.

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Talent is Overrated:

The pressure on us to keep getting better is greater than it used to be because of a historic change in the economy.

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