6/27/2023 0 Comments Talent is overrated![]() ![]() So, what makes a great performance in ANYTHING?! If talent means that success is easy or rapid, as most people seem to believe, then something is obviously wrong with a talent-based explanation of high achievement.” In math, science, musical composition, swimming, X-ray diagnosis, tennis, literature-no one, not even the most “talented” performers, became great without at least ten years of very hard preparation. ![]() Subsequent research in a wide range of fields has substantiated the ten-year rule everywhere the researchers have looked. In a famous study of chess players, Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon and William Chase proposed “the ten year rule,” based on their observation that no one seemed to reach the top ranks of chess players without a decade or so of intensive study, and some required much more time.Įven Bobby Fischer was not an exception when he became a grand master at age sixteen, he had been studying chess intensively for nine years. ![]()
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