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Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.

Childhoods of Exceptional People

Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world

Tony Kulesa kulesa.substack.com

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Temple Grandin • Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Talent works, genius creates – argues talent and genius lie on a continuum, not discrete

Hand Eysenck • Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 12)

In Roche’s studies of executives, the average number of mentors was two and among females it was three. Dean Keith Simonton explains: Prospective pupils should draw upon many mentors rather than just one. The same advice has been given in choice of models, and for the same reason. With many mentors on which to base their personal growth, talented y

Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

Keith Stanovich, aprofessor of psychology, likes to distinguish between intelligence quotient (IQ), which measures mentalskills that are real and helpful in cognitive tasks, and rationality quotient (RQ), the ability to make gooddecisions. His claim is that the overlap between these abilities is much lower than most people think.

Dan Callahan • Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors

Howard Gardner in his famous Frames of Mind, the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983) identifies seven main modes of learning as (1) linguistic, (2) logical-mathematical, (3) bodily kinesthetic, (4) spatial-visual, (5) musical, (6) interpersonal, and (7) intrapersonal.

Karin Rugman • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch

Bill não supervalorizava a experiência. Ele olhava as habilidades e a mentalidade da pessoa e era capaz de projetar o que ela poderia se tornar. Esse é o talento de um treinador: a capacidade de ver o potencial de um jogador, não apenas seu desempenho atual, ainda que não com total precisão. Como a professora de Stanford, Carol Dweck, aponta em seu