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:

…the most important effect of practice in great performers is that it takes them beyond, or, more precisely, around – the limitations that most of us think of as critical.

84

Talent is Overrated:

…[great performers] didn’t start out that way, and the transformation didn’t happen by itself.

85

Talent is Overrated:

Sometimes excellent performers see more by developing better and faster understanding of what they see.

87

Talent is Overrated:

…the future always counts, and looking further into it – rationally – is always an advantage.

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Talent is Overrated:

Making sound decisions fast and at low cost is a competitive advantage everywhere.

92

Talent is Overrated:

…seeing differences that others don’t see is another way of perceiving more.

93

Talent is Overrated:

Deliberate practice works by helping us acquire the specific abilities we need to excel in a given field.

94

Talent is Overrated:

In general, the knowledge of top performers is integrated and connected to higher-level principles.

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Talent is Overrated:

…top performers have typically learned several, and sometimes all, of the most important parts of the business.

97

Talent is Overrated:

Building and developing knowledge is one of the things that deliberate practice accomplishes.

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