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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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