Talent Explained
What is talent? I am not sure I can give you concrete answer, but I can pinpoint to problems and provide a simple framework that can be used when discussing talent ID and talent development.
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Is Talent Identification BS?
Yes, talent identification is BS! There, I’ve said it. Not because there is no talent, but because we are unable to predict it. I believe that most talent ID and development programs are waste of money and maybe counterproductive in actually developing the talent.
Robert Sapolsky – Complementarity between genes and environment
I just finished episode 16 – Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment. It is eye opening and if you want to spend 30min on learning something really freakin’ interesting watch it. It goes into the importance of pre-natal environment and how some traits are inherited without genes (like obesity, metabolic syndrome, anxiety, etc), inheritance numbers (like, human height is 95% inherited) and what do they…
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Over the last few weeks I’ve stumbled on couple great sources of information and I wanted to share in the case you missed it.
Deliberate Practice for Coaches
I just finished Talent is Overrated and just starting the Bounce as recommended by Professor Keith Davids in this interview. All those books (can’t say exactly about the Bounce since I just started it) goes into the nature~nurture debate and shows how innate talent is not enough and the importance of something called deliberate practice (for a short review…
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