In Talent is Overrated, Geoff Colvin claims that many who are world-class performers go through an extensive specific type of work that is designed to improve their performance. Colvin backs this claim up by explaining and demonstrating the results of deliberate practice through numerous examples of experiments and papers performed and written by experts and authors. Colvin’s purpose is to answer people’s curiosities on how to achieve great success in order to demonstrate that great performance is not as easy, requires a great amount of work, and how we can apply these principles in our lives. Given the informal and yet casual tone, Colvin’s intended audience is anyone of all ages who want to get better at what they are passionate about.
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Throughout Tiger’s early childhood years, he was born into the home of a golf expert who lead his child into deliberate practice and constantly practiced golf regularly. Not only did Tiger Woods grew up in a home with an expert but as well Mozart. Mozart is quite known to be a music prodigy for decades now however, behind the scenes it doesn’t seem as quite something as born talented. Mozart was composing music at age five and performing in front of many in his early years, which is absolutely fascinating. However, Mozart’s father was Leopold Mozart who was a famous composer and performer and was also a “domineering parent who started his son on a program of intensive training in composition and performing at age three” (Colvin)26. Great performance doesn’t come naturally, factors especially early factors contribute to a great part of it, and the main key is deliberate practice. In addition, Colvin uses logos to illustrate how deliberate practice is developed. Colvin introduces the experiment done by Laszlo Polgar, a Hungarian psychologist. Polgar argued that deliberate practice is made not naturally inherited when one is born. The experimented consisted of raising two daughters and devoting their life to teaching each daughter how to exceed well in chess. As stated, “The family accumulated a library of ten thousand chess books. A giant pre-computer-age filing system of index cards cataloged previous games and …show more content…
In our culture, we always celebrate achievement and success however not many of us know the real truth about hard work and the process behind on how to achieve it. Therefore this leads America into thinking we are either “too lazy” to achieve anything or we don’t have the ability or “natural talent” to succeed. As kids grow up, many of them see their role models in stages, fields, or movies without knowing the whole process and extreme dedication that gets them there. “Little girls squeal as Miley Cyrus sings and dances but have no way of knowing about the years of work behind their abilities or the endless rehearsals needed to produce three minutes of video” (Colvin)208. This leads to children not putting enough effort or time to improve themselves and grow. Children at a young age are influenced heavily and live in a society that has idealistic standards, therefore we need to let know children there is no magic behind talent. As a whole society, many need to be exposed to hard work and more opportunities to find their true passion and dedicate themselves and become their own success and find their inner ‘talent’. “Top performance makes good television. The deliberate practice that leads to top performance–highly repetitive, full of mistakes–doesn’t. And detailing the grueling work that all great performers
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Throughout Tiger’s early childhood years, he was born into the home of a golf expert who lead his child into deliberate practice and constantly practiced golf regularly. Not only did Tiger Woods grew up in a home with an expert but as well Mozart. Mozart is quite known to be a music prodigy for decades now however, behind the scenes it doesn’t seem as quite something as born talented. Mozart was composing music at age five and performing in front of many in his early years, which is absolutely fascinating. However, Mozart’s father was Leopold Mozart who was a famous composer and performer and was also a “domineering parent who started his son on a program of intensive training in composition and performing at age three” (Colvin)26. Great performance doesn’t come naturally, factors especially early factors contribute to a great part of it, and the main key is deliberate practice. In addition, Colvin uses logos to illustrate how deliberate practice is developed. Colvin introduces the experiment done by Laszlo Polgar, a Hungarian psychologist. Polgar argued that deliberate practice is made not naturally inherited when one is born. The experimented consisted of raising two daughters and devoting their life to teaching each daughter how to exceed well in chess. As stated, “The family accumulated a library of ten thousand chess books. A giant pre-computer-age filing system of index cards cataloged previous games and …show more content…
In our culture, we always celebrate achievement and success however not many of us know the real truth about hard work and the process behind on how to achieve it. Therefore this leads America into thinking we are either “too lazy” to achieve anything or we don’t have the ability or “natural talent” to succeed. As kids grow up, many of them see their role models in stages, fields, or movies without knowing the whole process and extreme dedication that gets them there. “Little girls squeal as Miley Cyrus sings and dances but have no way of knowing about the years of work behind their abilities or the endless rehearsals needed to produce three minutes of video” (Colvin)208. This leads to children not putting enough effort or time to improve themselves and grow. Children at a young age are influenced heavily and live in a society that has idealistic standards, therefore we need to let know children there is no magic behind talent. As a whole society, many need to be exposed to hard work and more opportunities to find their true passion and dedicate themselves and become their own success and find their inner ‘talent’. “Top performance makes good television. The deliberate practice that leads to top performance–highly repetitive, full of mistakes–doesn’t. And detailing the grueling work that all great performers