excellence - why natural talent is a myth
DESCRIPTION
35 slide presentation (timed to about 90mins) delivered at JCI.The slides themselves are mostly images, but the notes delivers the presentation step-by-step. The point argued is that there is no such thing as natural talents or 'gifts', but that all world class performance comes from hard, deliberate practice. Sources are mainly Malcolm Gladwell and K. Anders Eriksson.TRANSCRIPT
Excellence
THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS
Their super powers
• They never go Autopilot• They see more details• They interpret meaning better• They look further ahead• They know more from less• They make finer discriminations• They keep going no matter what
HARD WORK
GENIOUS
SPECIAL TALENT
”The difference between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance”
HOW DO YOU BECOME EXCELLENT?
YOU MUST MEET THE THRESHOLD
KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO EXCEL IN
DESIGNED TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE
IT CAN BE REPEATED
FEEDBACK IS AVAILABLE
MENTALLY DEMANDING
IT IS NOT FUNNY
EVERY DAY FOR 10 YEARS
Why is this a problem?Why isn’t good okay? Why does excellent matter?
All the world’s a stage
IT’S A BRAVE NEW WORLD
EXCELLENCE IS MEANINGFUL
Litterature and references
• Malcolm Gladwell, ’Outliers’ • K. Anders Eriksson ed. ’The Road to
Excellence.• Cavey ’Talent is overrated’• Jim Collins, ’Built to Last’ and ’Good to Great’.
Ulrik Lehrskov - Schmidt Ulrik holds a masters degree in analytical Philosophy from The University of Aarhus and has studied both Marketing Management and Decision Theory at Harvard University. He is a certified coach from IDT.
Ulrik is the general manager of World In Property Ltd., that provides news, analysis and networking to the real estate sectors in 6 European countries.
He has formerly held positions within both managemet consultantcy and public management.
Ulrik speaks on a variety of subjects including:• Excellenc and high performance in people and organizations.• Personal productivity – and achieving life goals.• Learning techniques (reading, notation, memory, functional analysis etc.)
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