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- Plateaus...
From The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills:A plateau happens when your brain achieves a level of automaticity; in other words, when you can perform a skill on autopilot, without conscious thought. Our brains love autopilot, because...
- The Most Successful People Practice Better, Not More
Thanks to Barry for passing this along. How long does it take to become elite at your craft? And what do the people who master their goals do differently than the rest of us? That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon...
- Expert Enough Show Ep. 6 - 10,000 Hours Of Golf With Dan Mclaughlin
In this episode of The Expert Enough Show, Corbett Barr sits down with Dan McLaughlin of TheDanPlan.com to find out. Dan is testing the 10,000 hour rule by trying to become a professional golfer through 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. His goal...
- The Dan Plan: Testing 10,000 Hours To Expert Performance
A big thanks to Will for passing this along! Link .......... Site: The Dan Plan .................... Related previous posts:The truth about grit - By Jonah LehrerWhat it takes to be greatRelated papers:“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition...
- Talent: A Difference That Makes A Difference - By Greg Downey
Thank you Miguel for finding this! Malcolm Gladwell’s thoughts on this topic in his book Outliers are interesting as well. Here’s a quote from Gladwell on talent that may be a useful one to review before reading this article: “Talent is the desire...
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Genius: The Modern View - By David Brooks
A big thanks to Miguel for passing this article along, as it applies to a subject that I am very interested in.
Some people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout the ages, certain paragons of greatness — Dante, Mozart, Einstein — whose talents far exceeded normal comprehension, who had an other-worldly access to transcendent truth, and who are best approached with reverential awe.
We, of course, live in a scientific age, and modern research pierces hocus-pocus. In the view that is now dominant, even Mozart’s early abilities were not the product of some innate spiritual gift. His early compositions were nothing special. They were pastiches of other people’s work. Mozart was a good musician at an early age, but he would not stand out among today’s top child-performers.
What Mozart had, we now believe, was the same thing Tiger Woods had — the ability to focus for long periods of time and a father intent on improving his skills. Mozart played a lot of piano at a very young age, so he got his 10,000 hours of practice in early and then he built from there.
The latest research suggests a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical view of the world. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It’s not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it’s deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
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Related previous post: What it takes to be great
Related books:
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Some people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout the ages, certain paragons of greatness — Dante, Mozart, Einstein — whose talents far exceeded normal comprehension, who had an other-worldly access to transcendent truth, and who are best approached with reverential awe.
We, of course, live in a scientific age, and modern research pierces hocus-pocus. In the view that is now dominant, even Mozart’s early abilities were not the product of some innate spiritual gift. His early compositions were nothing special. They were pastiches of other people’s work. Mozart was a good musician at an early age, but he would not stand out among today’s top child-performers.
What Mozart had, we now believe, was the same thing Tiger Woods had — the ability to focus for long periods of time and a father intent on improving his skills. Mozart played a lot of piano at a very young age, so he got his 10,000 hours of practice in early and then he built from there.
The latest research suggests a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical view of the world. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It’s not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it’s deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
………………..
Related previous post: What it takes to be great
Related books:
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Outliers: The Story of Success
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- Plateaus...
From The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills:A plateau happens when your brain achieves a level of automaticity; in other words, when you can perform a skill on autopilot, without conscious thought. Our brains love autopilot, because...
- The Most Successful People Practice Better, Not More
Thanks to Barry for passing this along. How long does it take to become elite at your craft? And what do the people who master their goals do differently than the rest of us? That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon...
- Expert Enough Show Ep. 6 - 10,000 Hours Of Golf With Dan Mclaughlin
In this episode of The Expert Enough Show, Corbett Barr sits down with Dan McLaughlin of TheDanPlan.com to find out. Dan is testing the 10,000 hour rule by trying to become a professional golfer through 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. His goal...
- The Dan Plan: Testing 10,000 Hours To Expert Performance
A big thanks to Will for passing this along! Link .......... Site: The Dan Plan .................... Related previous posts:The truth about grit - By Jonah LehrerWhat it takes to be greatRelated papers:“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition...
- Talent: A Difference That Makes A Difference - By Greg Downey
Thank you Miguel for finding this! Malcolm Gladwell’s thoughts on this topic in his book Outliers are interesting as well. Here’s a quote from Gladwell on talent that may be a useful one to review before reading this article: “Talent is the desire...