Comments on: Talent is Overrated: Book Review

By: Mockito Mock

Mockito Mock — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:17:00 +0000

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By: Rubens_modeler

Rubens_modeler — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:04:00 +0000

One great thing that I felt that is lacking behind these books is the
MARKETING and the PUBLICITY these “Great Performers” recieved knowing
that there are a lot of people out there, that are way better. The team
and the vision they have for themselves and the imagery they sell for
others can have an effect on people.

Also they lack strongly on
the TEAM they have caring abour them. This books talks about only about
ONE single person with planned practice, although it talks about
coorporations, it doesn’t deepened strongly on the fact that these great
performers have an entire team behind them.

If the 10 year rule
is strong enough, then at 40 years anyone (that have more than 10 years
working on a planned basis) could be a great performer, when we already
know it is not true.

So the book, is great for having a partial
view of what great performance means and have scientific approach which
is good, but in the reality, not everyone was born is the talent to
perform it, not even working extremely hard

Cheers

Rubens

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By: Bruce Salem

Bruce Salem — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:08:26 +0000

I just glanced through this book and I take issue with its main idea and its audience. I think that it overstates the role of a conscious goal and understates the compelling role of abilities that appear very early in life. It is true that such talents must be recognized by people close to the young child; but read bios of people we know to have genius or talent after the fact and it is clear that they had that support. We don’t hear about the far greater number of people that “coulda been a Contenda!” because their parents or the school or the Great Depression, whatever, spoiled their chances to develop at a critical time.

You do software, and so have I. I know that writing good code requires hard work and practice, but I also know that it is much easier for some people to write working programs than it is for others? Can the “talent” be taught? Far more important is how to we get people to find out what they are good at early enough so they can develop skill and without distractions having to do with pragmatism. A big criticism I have of American values is that people here focus too much on what will get them attention and not enough on what unique abilities they bring to the world. I think that the focus on short-term investment in skills will hurt this country and that other regions of the world will displace us as the place to come to create the future because they are more patient about the development of ability.

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