now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great
success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work
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 natural who came into the world with a gift for doing
exactly what he ended up doing. As Buffett told Fortune not long ago, he was "wired at birth to allocate capital." It’s a one-in-a-million thing. You’ve got it – or you don’t.
Well,
folks, it’s not so simple. For one thing, you do not possess a natural
gift for a certain job, because targeted natural gifts don’t exist.
(Sorry, Warren.) You are not a born CEO or investor or chess
grandmaster. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount
of hard work over many years. And not just any hard work, but work of a
particular type that’s demanding and painful.
Buffett, for instance, is famed for his discipline and the hours he
spends studying financial statements of potential investment targets.
The good news is that your lack of a natural gift is irrelevant –
talent has little or nothing to do with greatness. You can make
yourself into any number of things, and you can even make yourself
great.
Scientific experts are producing remarkably consistent
findings across a wide array of fields. Understand that talent doesn’t
mean intelligence, motivation or personality traits. It’s an innate
ability to do some specific activity especially well. British-based
researchers Michael J. Howe, Jane W. Davidson and John A. Sluboda
conclude in an extensive study, "The evidence we have surveyed … does
not support the [notion that] excelling is a consequence of possessing
innate gifts."
To see how the researchers could reach such a
conclusion, consider the problem they were trying to solve. In
virtually every field of endeavor, most people learn quickly at first,
then more slowly and then stop developing completely. Yet a few do
improve for years and even decades, and go on to greatness.
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