(The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success) [By: Epstein, David] [Jan, 2014] Cover
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(The Sports Gene Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success) [By: Epstein, David] [Jan, 2014]

David Epstein

Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance g...

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

The most important idea in the book that they didn't discuss was that talent at baseline is sometimes correlated with your ability to improve from training.

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And that's a huge deal because we usually judge people's potential based on what we see right now or what we see at baseline before they've really had a chance to train.

— Episode: David Epstein: 10,000 Hours Is A Lie! Th...

Episode: David Epstein: 10,000 Hours Is A Lie! The Morning...

The most important idea in the book that they didn't discuss was that talent at baseline is sometimes correlated with your ability to improve from training.

"

And that's a huge deal because we usually judge people's potential based on what we see right now or what we see at baseline before they've really had a chance to train.

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