Quotes About Talent

the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic.

manuscript. Happily, they complied, and Outliers is infinitely

The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time

The professional hockey player starts out a little bit better than his peers.

way the world of classical music picks its future virtuosos, or the way the world of ballet picks its future ballerinas, or the way our elite educational system picks its future scientists and intellectuals. You can't buy your way into Major Junior A hockey. It doesn't matter who your father or mother is, or who your grandfather was, or what business your family is in. Nor does it matter

Se você está julgando se alguém é bom violinista, saber se essa pessoa é alta ou baixa, bonita ou feia, branca ou negra não vai ajudar. Na verdade, provavelmente apenas adicionará preconceitos que dificultarão ainda mais sua tarefa.

in examining the lives of the remarkable among us—the skilled, the talented, and the driven—I will argue that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.

Era un ejemplo de cómo los fuera de serie de un campo particular alcanzaban el estatus más alto mediante una combinación de capacidad, oportunidad y ventaja completamente arbitraria

O sucesso é uma combinação de talento e preparação. O problema com essa forma de pensar é que, quanto mais a fundo os psicólogos analisam as carreiras dos talentosos, menor parece o papel desempenhado pelo talento e maior se mostra a importância da preparação.

Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.

Ancak onlar?n hikayelerini gerçekten farkl? k?lan olaÄŸanüstü yetenekleri deÄŸil, kar??laÅŸt?klar? olaÄŸanüstü f?rsatlar.

Bir basketbol oyuncusu sadece yeterince uzun olmal? ve ayn? durum zeka için de geçerli. Zekan?n bir eÅŸiÄŸi var.

BaÅŸka tür bir dünyada babam çok daha baÅŸar?l? olabilirdi.

Malcolm Gladwell

El éxito es talento más preparación. El problema de este punto de vista es que, cuanto más miran los psicólogos las carreras de los mejor dotados, menor les parece el papel del talento innato; y mayor el que desempeña la preparación.

Sus investigaciones sugieren que una vez que un músico ha demostrado capacidad suficiente para ingresar en una academia superior de música, lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más.

The talent of essentially half of the Czech athletic population has been squandered.

Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions. In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.

we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and

Malcolm Gladwell

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.