Recensie Talent is overrated

Hier is een recensie die ik schreef van het boek Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else.

I intended to write a review of Malcolm Galdwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success but I came across this book and I was surprised to find I like this book more. The book not only debugs the talent myth, the believe that talent is a dominant factor in high achievement (which Gladwell has done too in several publications). It also operationalizes the concept of deliberate practice. This concept was introduced by Anders Ericsson, a leading researcher in the field of expertise development. Colvin explains that deliberate practice can be described by these five characteristics: lees verder.