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Talent is Overrated:
Many years of intensive deliberate practice actually change the body and the brain. There’s a good reason why we see the world’s great performers as being fundamentally different from us…
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Talent is Overrated:
…[great performers] didn’t start out that way, and the transformation didn’t happen by itself.
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Talent is Overrated:
Sometimes excellent performers see more by developing better and faster understanding of what they see.
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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.
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Talent is Overrated:
…seeing differences that others don’t see is another way of perceiving more.
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Talent is Overrated:
Deliberate practice works by helping us acquire the specific abilities we need to excel in a given field.
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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.
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Talent is Overrated:
Building and developing knowledge is one of the things that deliberate practice accomplishes.
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