CHAPTER 2
OUTLIERS, TALENT CODES, AND MYTHS
PLAY AND PRACTICE IN DEVELOPING THE EXPERT ATHLETE
It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.
(Theodore Roosevelt)
The past 10 years have brought increased interest in the concept of “talent,” particularly from those trying to build a case that it does not exist. For example, an extremely infuential 2006 piece in Fortune magazine claimed “talent has little or nothing to do with greatness” (a notion that author Geoff Colvin expanded into the New York Times best-selling book Talent Is Overrated: What Really ...
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