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- How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Talent
Link to article: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent The 8-year-old juggling a soccer ball and the 48-year-old jogging by, with Japanese lessons ringing from her earbuds, have something fundamental in common: At some level, both are wondering whether...
- Nigel Goldenfeld: We Need A Theory Of Life
Link to interview: Nigel Goldenfeld: We Need a Theory of LifeNigel Goldenfeld: The prejudice that one runs into often (but not always) when one talks about evolution is that evolution really is dominated by what's called vertical gene transfer, where...
- Richard Dawkins On Long-lasting Memes...
From Chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition (it also looks like an MP3 CD of the book will be released in a few weeks which can be pre-ordered for just $8.99, HERE):I have been a bit negative about memes, but they have their cheerful...
- Which Traits Predict Success? (the Importance Of Grit) - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Simoleon Sense.What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It’s about being able to do something – hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog – better than most anyone else....
- Rising Above I.q.
Another great find from Miguel at Simoleon Sense. In the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks — and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us....These three groups...
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Nature versus Nurture
A Robert Sapolsky quote from the article I linked to in the previous post that I think relates to the topic of 'expert performance' that has been a frequent one on this blog:
"To some extent, the age-old “nature versus nurture” debate is silly. The action of genes is completely intertwined with the environment in which they function; in a sense, it is pointless to even discuss what gene X does, and we should consider instead only what gene X does in environment Y."
- How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Talent
Link to article: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent The 8-year-old juggling a soccer ball and the 48-year-old jogging by, with Japanese lessons ringing from her earbuds, have something fundamental in common: At some level, both are wondering whether...
- Nigel Goldenfeld: We Need A Theory Of Life
Link to interview: Nigel Goldenfeld: We Need a Theory of LifeNigel Goldenfeld: The prejudice that one runs into often (but not always) when one talks about evolution is that evolution really is dominated by what's called vertical gene transfer, where...
- Richard Dawkins On Long-lasting Memes...
From Chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition (it also looks like an MP3 CD of the book will be released in a few weeks which can be pre-ordered for just $8.99, HERE):I have been a bit negative about memes, but they have their cheerful...
- Which Traits Predict Success? (the Importance Of Grit) - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Simoleon Sense.What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It’s about being able to do something – hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog – better than most anyone else....
- Rising Above I.q.
Another great find from Miguel at Simoleon Sense. In the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks — and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us....These three groups...