![]() ![]() The Journal write up includes important messages and crucial passages from the book. Though rest assured, I am not attempting to take any credit for the main ideas below. Sometimes, to my own fault, quotes are interlaced with my own words. Written informally, the notes contain a mesh and mix of quotes and my own thoughts on the book. My notes are a reflection of the journal write up above. This is my book summary of Talent Is Overrated. Find meaning, start early, and of course, practice. Such change holds the secret to world-class performance. ![]() It happens that if we cling to these challenges they have the propensity to change us. A tendency to seek automation of the hard things in life stigmatize hard as viscerally unpleasant. ![]() It’s not that a select population of people is somehow predisposed to greatness, people just prescribe to being mediocre. And not just any practice, Deliberate practice. Our most prized prodigies are really the product of practice. Dispose of the idea that top performance comes from anything but a methodical process of development. The title says it all Talent is overrated. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoffrey Colvin ![]()
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