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Talent is Overrated

What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

by Geoff Colvin

|Portfolio©2008·228 pages

Colvin tells us talent is overrated. (As you may have gathered from the title. :) Where’s it at? 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, yo. That’s the bedrock on which greatness is developed. In this Note, we’ll check out The Mozart Myth (you think he was born great?! Think again!) to falling on your butt 20,000 times, and we’ll have fun seeing how we can create our own personal greatness.


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Geoff Colvin
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Geoff Colvin

"Rethink leadership, achievement, & human possibility."