Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect

Maria Konnikova · 28 Sept 2016

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Talent needs the right environment and opportunity to flourish; genes alone do not make a genius.

Their wordsOpportunity must be there. Genes are great, but they need to have the right environment in which to flourish.

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Talent needs the right environment and opportunity to flourish; genes alone do not make a genius.

Their wordsOpportunity must be there. Genes are great, but they need to have the right environment in which to flourish.
Our reading
Saying that training is everything in reaching elite performance is tempting but wrong; genes and environment both matter.

Their wordsWe cannot predict with accuracy who will become élite in a given field, but we know that genes and environment matter and that we all have different natural peaks that we can reach through application and training. Saying that training is everything may be tempting, but it’s wrong.

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