Everyone knows about (a) and (b), so the biggest mistake people make in understanding performance, in so many different contexts, is ignoring the role of (c).
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My 10 year old asked how to be good at things. I told him that how good people were at something depended on: (a) natural ability, (b) practice, and (c) how into it they were.
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I wish someone told me when I was younger how much easier it is to be good at something when you LOVE it instead of labouring under the misaprehsion work has to be miserable.
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(d) luck
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Luck is important, but it's a component of your performance at x, not of how good you are at x.
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I always put an emphasis on deliberate practice
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(d) amount of resources (time, money, teachers & facilities) they have access to
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In some things, like music and sports, it also depends on how skilled and effective your teacher is.
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I wish it were that easy. ‘Natural ability’. Point is how to find that out early in life; and how do you map it to real life professions/hobbies- show me a way,I will practice it in my next life( too late this life) and sell all my possessions to you for telling me the secret. -
I agree on b and c. If by a, partly IQ is meant, I partially agree. But the part about natural ability is subjective and not easy to find it out. Add luck- hard work does ‘not’ guarantee success, but greatly increases its chances.
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