Talent Is Overrated, Geoff Colvin, wrote, “Talent means nothing like what we think it means, if indeed it means anything at all.”5 Citing numerous studies of accomplished individuals, world-class athletes, and performers whom we often consider prodigies, he claimed the reason for their success was practice. When the evidence does point to rare instances of natural ability, he argued, it was always followed by rigorous training. “Such findings do not prove that talent doesn’t exist,” he wrote. “But they do suggest an intriguing possibility: that if it does, it may be irrelevant.” In other
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