All reviews for Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (2008)
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This was one of the best books that I have ever read on the topic on talent and skill development! It has a similar concept to "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, but takes the concept a bit further. In this book, Geoff Colvin explores whether people with extraordinary talent (such as Lebron James or Yo Yo Ma) have some hidden advantage that makes them great.His answers delves into the nature of how we learn, how we develop skills and whether we have the ability to jump from playing amateur golf on the weekends to the PGA tour. A great book and one that I would highly recommend!!
I read this after I read Bounce.A mistake really as the ground covered is very similar.Would prefer to have read this first and then I could have given Bounce a miss after the first few pages but that is just the way it goes. (although Bounce is probably easier to just read).The essential message is hard work is the key to success.Which really only moves the debate back one step.It is no longer about "the genius" of such and such but "what makes them work so darn hard?"
Many thanks, a good read. It's not just about talent, it's about a whole lot more!
One of the best books I have read. Invokes thought process while reading.