What is the secret to acquiring talent? (Image: Random House)
A GLANCE at this book might persuade you the author is onto something huge. It doesn’t take long, however, to realise that his unearthing of a neurological mechanism for accelerating the acquisition of talent boils down to little more than “practice makes perfect“. The exercise falls especially flat if you are up to speed with research into the origins of success popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and others.
Nonetheless, I’d buy the book for two reasons. Firstly, is a fine writer and makes an excellent pick of examples…
