Comments on: What is Talent?

By: Influence Persuasion Mastery | Jose Escalante

Influence Persuasion Mastery | Jose Escalante — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:14:31 +0000

[...] when I read What is Talent? By Kate Mckeon I had to bookmark it. It talked about practicing for 1000 hours to be better then 95% of the [...]

By: Darryl Pace

Darryl Pace — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:47:32 +0000

Great information.
Your post reminds me of a speaker at a K. Hogan event that talked about how world class achievers (e.g. Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, etc.) put in 10,000 hours of practice prior to reaching the pinnacle of their chosen sport. However, your post is more applicable to the adult that is already in a job and that desires to either rise within his/her field, or to switch fields.

Health, Fitness for Working People — Darryl Pace

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:34:51 +0000

That’s really interesting. Essentially, if one works hard enough, they can accomplish anything with time.

Inspiring. Thank you.

By: Scott Payne

Scott Payne — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:09:12 +0000

Thanks for the information, thats a perspective I never thought of. Keep up the good work.
Scott
http://www.scottpayne.me

By: katemckeon

katemckeon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:29:12 +0000

Exactly! That’s why it is never too late to start. If you have a dream, get started!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:22:42 +0000

that’s so interesting, 1000 hours of a skill makes you so much better, so let’s see if I spend 6 days a week painting for 3 hours– that’s 18 hours……18x = 1000 = 55.6

so it will take me about a year and one month to be better than 95%?? and that’s taking a day off to rest, not bad at all

MissMentor

By: Keri Eagan

Keri Eagan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:30:04 +0000

I never thought about myelin that way although I knew what it is/does. Think I did some kind of ….ah now I remember. In the book pH miracle there is something about myelin and how our diet alters it.

Keri Eagan
Anything Alternative

By: Baby Boomer Dating Expert

Baby Boomer Dating Expert — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:38:38 +0000

Hi Kate,

Oh wow, I LOVE that. it is SO cool! I love how you define Talent with scientific methods. When you wrote, “Firing on all cylinders – What produces talent is constant firing of the right neural pathways. Keep firing them and the myelin builds. The more you fire (the right paths!), the more myelin . . . the more myelin, the more signal reaches . . .” I could see how the building up of fundamental skills like we recommend in athletics, dating/relatinship skills, academic pursuits, EVERYthing that this definition made so much sense.

SO COOL!

pardon my gushing

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

Single Baby Boomer Dating Success Expert

By: Robert Martin

Robert Martin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:49:42 +0000

I did not about the correlation between myelin and talent.

Robert Martin
http://www.carbuyinghq.com

By: Rob Northrup

Rob Northrup — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:06:25 +0000

This shows that getting into a rut can be a good thing. As long as we are repeating postiive actions with excellent form .

Regarding natural ability, I read a book last year called Talent is Overrated… it was excellen t,

Seize the Day,
Rob
Emergency Preparedness For the 21st Century Family