Talent is overrated

[Scarecrow]

Talent is overrated notes by Geoff Colvin

 

"Mozart became Mozart by working furiously hard"

 

All about deliberate practice

 

Its hard, it hurts but it works

 

Chief constraint is mental regardless of field

 

Concentration is so intense it's exhausting

 

The greats become greats by training more effectively

 

People are doing more with what they got

 

No evidence of a fast track for high achievers

 

Usually the best show no early evidence of gifts

 

IQ is only significant on unfamiliar tasks

 

Memory ability is acquired

 

It isn't experience

 

It isn't inborn abilities

 

Effective people design training for specific things

 

Its not fun

 

Work is done alone

 

Achievement comes from many years of toil

 

If activities that lead to greatness were easy and fun, then everyone would do them. Then they would not be able to distinguish the best from the rest. The grueling work is good news. Means most people won't do it. Which makes you a very unique individual

 

Sharp, focused and working hard

 

Avoid being on autopilot, work requires consciousness

 

In knowledge resides the power

 

Research your domain, understand the big picture

 

High memory in your field

 

Top performers deep understanding of their field becomes the structure on which they can handle the huge quantities of information they learn about it

 

There is a path leading from the state of our own abilities to that of the greats. The path is extremely long and demanding, and only a few will fallow it all the way to its end. 

 

Find your own teachers that push your abilities

 

You don't become better by just doing something. Great achievers work over and over on things that needed to be improved

 

Ability to carry it through

 

Make domain knowledge a objective, make a mental model of how your domain works. It is one of the defining traits of great performers. But the models are never finished.

 

Great innovators spent many years in intensive preparation before making any kind of creative breakthroughs 

 

The best creators are the ones who consistently immerse themselves in there chosen field, have devoted their lives to it, attained tremendous knowledge of it, and continuously push themselves into it 

 

Innovators are not burdened by knowledge, they are nourished by it

 

You build on a already existing foundation

 

What do you want? deliberate practice is a heavy investment. Requires the largest investment you will ever make- years of your life devoted utterly to your goal

 

If you believe that your performance is forever limited by your lack of a specific innate gift, or lack of general ability. Then there is no such chance at all you will do the work

 

Everyone who has achieved high-level performance had encountered terrible difficulties along the way. There are no exceptions

 

What you believe about the source of greatness becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve. We have the opportunity to base them on the evidence of reality

 

Price of top-level achievement is extremely high. Not many people will choose to pay it. Great performance is not reserved for a specific few. Its available to you and everyone. The only question is, who's going to do it?

   

 

for more information:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYAEr_94EDY&t=1239s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LoxHQWT5Q

 

[Nahm]

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[snowleopard]

Mozart was working so furiously hard he wrote The Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major as an 8 year old ... little prick !