Despite all the myths, talent is not completely fixed or predetermined at birth or at a young age. Talent depends on:
- a person’s motivation
- a person’s experience
- how a person is managed or led
Assessment of talent depends on:
- how it is defined by a culture
- how it is defined by an era
Talent depends more on effort and having access to the right information and techniques than on natural ability.
Talent, in other words, is far more malleable than many people want us to believe.
– Hard Facts by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
November 21, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Talent seems to be what Minsky call a suitcase word in his book[1]. A kind of box full of different meanings without any real possibility to draw its borders. Yours seem reasonable content of that box. I think talent could be the product of a long, daily, effort to put order in our thoughts and interpretations of facts that can help us to reach the best results.
Luigi
[1]M. Minsky, The Emotion Machine
November 28, 2007 at 7:19 am
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