I think some arts are often overrated, at least they're overrated by other smart people. And that does correlate with the people i would like to have dinner with. I know plenty of broad people who just don't work that hard at being really good at any particular thing they actually can do. That's not breadth per se. But a lot of the questions daniel and i propose or geared toward, how much does a person practise? How well do they practise? How focused are they on self improvement?
How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to podcasts, just so long, argues economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, as it makes you better at what you already do. Perhaps more than anything else, he believes, it's practice that divides middle managers from founders, and mere good hires from the creative obsessives who end up transforming the world. Join Cowen and EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a conversation about Talent, Cowen's new book on how (and how not) to identify the talented. Hear Cowen explain why, for high-level positions, unstructured interviews are important, why stamina is usually preferable to grit, and why credentials are largely a relic of the past.