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:

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve.

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Talent is Overrated:

The evidence offers no easy assurances. It shows that the price of top-level achievement is extraordinarily high. Perhaps it’s inevitable that not many people will choose to pay it.

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Talent is Overrated:

…evidence shows also that understanding how a few become great, anyone can become better.

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Talent is Overrated:

…the evidence shouts most loudly… liberating news: that great performance is not reserved for a preordained few. It is available to you and to everyone.

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