How to improve your talent – by Wayne Blackburn

How to improve your talent – by Wayne Blackburn [image error]

You, in the third run from the back. Yeah, I heard the joke about ventilated boobs!

What’s that you say? You know how to improve? “Practice, practice, practice!”?

Well, you’d be right, of course, but that’s not the whole story.

I’ve heard (ok, read) Sarah and others talk about “the myth of talent”, with which I have had my disagreements. It turns out, though, that I have never actually encountered the myth of talent, which apparently says that i...