Talent is overrated. What you need is hard work and dedication. At least this is the conclusion reached by Geoff Colvin in Talent is Overrated and by Malcom Gladwell in Outliers: The Story of Success. Both authors reach the counter-cultural conclusion that success, even for über-talents like Mozart or Tiger Woods was not just the result of genetic lottery or divine inspiration, but hard work for many, many years. Most people that master their field started at a very young age, between 3 and 6 years old.If you want your kids to excel at a subject they like, dabbling with it is just not enough. They have to practice hard.
