But now, thanks to the work of a wide-ranging team of scientists, including Dr. For centuries, people have instinctively assumed that talent is largely innate, a gift given out at birth. My research also took me to a different sort of hotbed: the laboratories and research centers around the country investigating the new science of talent development. A ski academy in Vermont with an enrollment of a hundred that has produced fifty Olympic skiers over the past forty years.A Dallas vocal studio that has, over the past decade, developed millions of dollars’ worth of pop-music talent.A San Mateo, California, inner-city charter school that, in four years, transformed a student population perennially ranked at the bottom of state math scores into one that scored in the ninety-sixth percentile.A humble Adirondacks music camp where students accomplish one year’s worth of progress in seven weeks.A ramshackle Moscow tennis club that had, over the previous three years, produced more Top 20 women players than the entire United States.An Excerpt from The Little Book of Talent IntroductionĪ few years back, on assignment for a magazine, I began visiting talent hotbeds: tiny places that produce large numbers of world-class performers in sports, art, music, business, math, and other disciplines.
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