Posts Tagged ‘talent’

The Value of Writing Well

It’s that time of year again. No, not “the holiday season”. I mean, it is holiday time, but for professors it doesn’t start feeling like holiday time until final grades are in and the books are closed on another semester. No, for me, it’s paper-grading time, the time of year when I’m reminded over and over of the importance of good writing skills – and of their rarity.The ability to… Continue reading

December 8 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: learning, student, style, talent, thinking, writing | 25 comments»

Career Change from the Inside Out

Pamela Skilling’s Escape from Corporate America and Daniel H. Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

I just read something scary on Twitter. Jonathan Fields – entrepreneur extraordinaire (I interviewed him on Lifehack Live) – posted about a conversation he’d had with a friend who “didn't get how I could live w/ ‘stress’ of being entrepreneur and not having someone else pay me.”

It’s true… Continue reading

June 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, change, job, personal growth, self-improvement, talent | 13 comments»

Talent is a Myth

Scott H Young talks about something I happen to agree with whole-heartedly. For a long time since I was young I've been asked how did I become such a good drawer, that it's such a gift. But I always say that I just did it a lot. This lie of talent, of gifted-ness has to be one of the most poisonous lies people have deceived themselves into believing. The belief… Continue reading

February 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: learn, learning, skills, talent | 12 comments»

You Don’t Have to Conform to Be Successful

Your best friend loves playing baseball. He’s good at it and looks likely to make it to near-professional level one day. You’re a total klutz at the game. You don’t enjoy it, but you keep trying because your friend is so keen. He does his best to help you, but however hard you try, you don’t get much better.What should you do?About 99.9% of people will tell you to… Continue reading

January 22 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: achievement, career, motivation, performance, talent | 2 comments»

What it takes to be great

"Natural talent" vs "Practice makes perfect" always strikes me as a question when looking at career development and hiring. Geoffrey Colvin at Fortune Magazine writes a great article with set of real examples on targeted natural gifts doesn't exist, but consistent practice is what makes people great:What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway (Charts) Chairman Warren Buffett the world's premier investor? We think we know: Each was a… Continue reading

October 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: development, practice, talent | 3 comments»

My Employer, My New World Teacher

Last week Thursday, I challenged you to consider how you can best take advantage of our “New World” of learning opportunities. The possibilities waiting for you are extraordinary.I asked you to reflect back on when you feel you have learned best, so you can rally together those lessons-learned about when you have been a great student. Think of that self-knowledge as a collection of the great learning behaviors you… Continue reading

October 19 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: Communication, community, intention, knowledge, learning, lessons, mentorship, questions, relationship, skills, talent, worklife, workplace | 1 comment»

Talent vs. Practice

Practice makes perfect, or raw talent means everything? This is the question that pops up in my mind in a while when interviewing candidates, and look at the direction of my career.A article called, Talent vs. Practice references couple of researches and experiments on topics of experts do they born with more natural talents, or they are just practice more than other average people?K. Anders Ericsson found high level of… Continue reading

October 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: expert, practice, talent | 4 comments»