Becoming A Star
Star is a fact: Where does talent really come from?
A new 900 page review of The Cambridge academic and the Manual of expertise in performance, to be published this month, Freakonomics authors report very interesting conclusions.
(I recommend reading this book, if you have an interest in knowing how to make a star in any discipline.)
Here are three major conclusions of this work:
1. The feature we call talent is highly overrated.
That is, the performers of experts - whether in memory or surgery, ballet or programming - are nearly always made, not born. And yes,
2. Practice makes perfect. And finally, my personal favorite:
3. When choosing a way of life, should do what you like - if it is not love, you can not work enough to get very good.
They add: “Most people naturally do not like doing things that are not” good “. So they often give up, saying that they simply do not possess the talent for math or skiing or violin. ”






