{"id":1454,"date":"2011-04-29T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2011-04-29T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:37:22","slug":"the-destructive-myth-of-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/04\/29\/the-destructive-myth-of-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"The destructive myth of talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The commonly held but empirically unsupported notion that some uniquely \u2018\u2018talented\u2019\u2019 individuals can attain superior performance in a given domain without much practice appears to be a destructive myth that could discourage people from investing the necessary efforts to reach expert levels of performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">From the highly readable, Ericsson, K. A., &#038; Ward, P. (2007). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psy.fsu.edu\/~wardlab\/Peer%20Reviewed%20Articles\/In%20Press\/Naturally-occurring%20superior%20performance.pdf\">Capturing the naturally occurring superior performance of experts in the laboratory<\/a>. <i>Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16<\/i>(6), 346.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commonly held but empirically unsupported notion that some uniquely \u2018\u2018talented\u2019\u2019 individuals can attain superior performance in a given domain without much practice appears to be a destructive myth that could discourage people from investing the necessary efforts to reach expert levels of performance. From the highly readable, Ericsson, K. A., &#038; Ward, P. (2007). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-ns","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}