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Talent is Overrated:
…in many creative fields the person who pursues an advanced degree has consciously chosen a path to a professorship, not to a life of innovating in that domain.
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Talent is Overrated:
…it makes perfect sense that… those with the most years of formal schooling would be less eminent as innovators.
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Talent is Overrated:
…innovators aren’t burdened by knowledge; they’re nourished by it.
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Talent is Overrated:
…notable innovations in business… do not arise from nothingness; they are not even remotely unprecedented.
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Talent is Overrated:
Innovation doesn’t reject the past; on the contrary, it relies heavily on the past and comes most readily to those who’ve mastered the domain as it exists.
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Talent is Overrated:
…all adaptations and extensions of what exists, [are] made possible by great insights but entirely impossible without a deep knowledge of, and reliance on, past achievements.
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Talent is Overrated:
…creative achievement is attained in the same way as other kinds of achievement.
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Talent is Overrated:
…innovators become great in the same way that everybody else does.
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Talent is Overrated:
…the most effective steps an organization can take to build innovation will include helping people expand and deepen their knowledge of their field.
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Talent is Overrated:
One of the main reasons why the people in organizations don’t produce more innovation is that the culture isn’t friendly to it. New ideas aren’t really welcomed.
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