Book Titles

…research suggests very strongly… that the link between intelligence and high achievement isn’t nearly as powerful as we commonly suppose.

…research tells us that intelligence as we usually think of it – a high IQ – is not a prerequisite to extraordinary achievement.

Research going back decades suggests that personality dimensions don’t vary much over the course of a person’s life. But of course that doesn’t necessarily limit a person’s achievement; it may limit only the fields in which a person is most likely to excel.

We tend to think we are forever barred from all manner of successes because of what we were or were not born with.

…research finds that in many fields the relation between intelligence and performance is weak or nonexistent; people with modest IQs sometimes perform outstandingly while people with high IQs sometimes don’t get past mediocrity.

If talent means that success is easy or rapid, as most people seem to believe, then something is obviously wrong with a talent-based explanation of high achievement.

…abundant evidence show[s] clearly that people can keep getting better long after they should have reached their ‘rigidly determinate’ natural limits.

Deliberate practice is characterized by several elements… it can be repeated a lot; feedback on results is continuously available; it’s highly demanding mentally… and it isn’t much fun.

High repetition is the most important difference between deliberate practice of a task and performing the task for real, when it counts.

…the most effective deliberate practice activities are those that can be repeated at high volume.