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Related previous posts:
The truth about grit - By Jonah Lehrer
Related papers:
“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”
“Deliberate Practice Spells Success: Why Grittier Competitors Triumph at the National Spelling Bee”
Related books:
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Outliers: The Story of Success
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Malcolm Gladwell's definition of talent (from this interview):
“Talent is the desire to practice. Right? It is that you love something so much that you are willing to make an enormous sacrifice and an enormous commitment to that, whatever it is -- task, game, sport, what have you.”