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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
When somebody performs in an exceptional way, you might exclaim, "What talent!" But if you refer to the expertise as “talent,” you lose sight of the hard work it took that person to reach such a high level of achievement. You might mistakenly believe an innate ability caused their success. Knowing the 10,000-Hour Rule can free you from the myth of talent. No comment yet.
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by The Geometry Teacher
One year while I was saying my final goodbyes toward the end of a final class period of the school year, I scandalized my students quite effectively. It had been one of the most enjoyable classes t... Delete the scoop?
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by Eric Barker, Barking Up the Wrong Tree
"Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" examines the work habits of over 150 great writers, artists and scientists. What did nearly every genius have in common? (including Faulkner, Angelou, Graham Bell, Van Gogh) Delete the scoop?
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by Becky Ryan, Forbes
Failure isn’t holding you back: fear of failure is. We’re conditioned to fear failure, as if lack of failure guarantees success. The reality is that lack of failure equals lack of risk-taking, which is required for meaningful success. Delete the scoop?
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by Tony Schwartz, The Energy Project, Business Insider
Like everyone who studies performance, I'm indebted to the extraordinary Anders Ericsson, arguably the world's leading researcher into high performance. For more than two decades, Ericsson has been making the case that it's not inherited talent which determines how good we become at something, but rather how hard we're willing to work — something he calls "deliberate practice." Numerous researchers now agree that 10,000 hours of such practice as the minimum necessary to achieve expertise in any complex domain. Delete the scoop?
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by Oliver Uberti, Lifelines
To find out, I plotted the lives of 177 artists, composers, poets, scientists, and software developers from the year 1300 to today. For each, I selected one sign... Delete the scoop?
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by Jocelyn Glei, 99u
When we welcome the creative struggle we're more likely to succeed. Via Shary Lyssy Marshall
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by Tony Schwartz, New York Times
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by Eric Barker
Hard work (often more than 10,000 hours worth) is vital.
Via Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi:
…the lessons that the rest of us can learn from individuals who are highly creative. I culled three: (1) Creative individuals spend a considerable amount of time reflecting on what they are trying to accomplish, whether or not they are achieving success (and, if not, what they might do differently). Delete the scoop?
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by Annie Murphy Paul, Brilliant Blog
I quoted Ken Koedinger, a professor of human-computer interaction and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, as saying that experts can articulate only about 30 percent of what they know. This is a problem when designing courses, he noted, because the experts creating them often can’t adequately explain what they know to the novice learner. Delete the scoop?
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by Eric Barker, Barking Up the Wrong Tree
We all know intelligence is important, creativity is important… but how much do these types of natural talent control really what you can achieve in life? Delete the scoop?
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by The Talent Code
Kids love to announce that they’re not good at something. They usually do it just after they try something new and challenging, and they say it with finality, as if issuing a verdict.
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by Annie Murphy Paul, The Brilliant Blog For those of us who’ve long felt skeptical of the “10,000 hour rule”—the idea that anyone can become an expert in any domain with 10,000 hours of practice—confirmation of our doubts has arrived in a forthcoming article in the journal Intelligence, titled “Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?” Delete the scoop?
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by Amelia Hill, The Guardian
Studies show children born in summer months have significant disadvantage compared to autumn-born schoolmates
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, says academic success is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, the foremost of which is relative age. Delete the scoop?
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by David Lewis, edSurge I’m encouraging the students I work with to embrace epic failure. Not because of the old cliché about “building character,” but because once you learn that failure is a friend, you become much more willing to push boundaries – which is what “making” is about. Delete the scoop?
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by Adam Renfro, Getting Smart
I’ve cracked the talent code. Well, I didn’t crack it myself, but the formula was shared with me. And I’ve seen its success first hand.
I know, this sounds incredible. Anyone who understands the formula can achieve great talent. So why can’t we share this secret with everyone, and then everyone could be awesome? Because if we were all awesome, then we would all be average again. Delete the scoop?
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by Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American
In the 1960s, the legendary psychologist Albert Bandura rejected the view that learning is passive. Instead he emphasized the importance of the active use of learning strategies. ... Delete the scoop?
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I hate failing. Failure feels like wasted life. Yes, I know I’m supposed to embrace failure and learn. But, given the choice, I’d succeed more! I haven’t failed for lack of good intentions. Via Beth Kanter
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Ways to think about failure as you deliberately practice your way to success. Delete the scoop?
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by Katrina Schwartz, Mind/Shift
You will change history. That's the core message of author Brad Meltzer's TED-Ed talk. Even famous change-makers -- like Martin Luther King -- had concerns like everyone else. They worried about failure and were lonely sometimes, but that didn’t stop them.... Delete the scoop?
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Highlights from a PopTech Talk by Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Outliers: The Story of Success." "When we observe differences in how individuals s... Delete the scoop?
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Sorry to break this to you, but you are a pretty bad judge of talent
It’s not your fault. We’re all bad at judging talent because we instinctively tend to overrate the visible stuff (performance), and underrate the invisible stuff we call “character” — namely work habits, competitiveness, ambition, and grit — which turn out to be far more important over the long run. Delete the scoop?
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by Shannon Doyne, New York Times
Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity. Professor K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues at Florida State University have studied elite performers, including musicians, athletes, ... Delete the scoop?
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by Katrina Schwartz, Mind/Shift
“Adaptive expertise tries to push beyond the idea of mastery,” said Jennifer Groff, an educational engineer and co-founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign. “You may be proficient, but without adaptive expertise you can get stuck very quickly as the world shifts.” Delete the scoop?
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by Annie Murphy Paul, The Brilliant Blog
What I take from this is how important it is to discard the idea that people who are “really” smart or talented don’t have to work very hard. It’s a damaging assumption, and inaccurate—as Carol Dweck likes to say, “Even geniuses work hard.”
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There's one figure that everyone takes away from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers: 10,000 hours. That, he says, is the difference between success and non-success, genius and mediocrity. Delete the scoop?
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