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David Epstein || Where Does Greatness Come From?

The Psychology Podcast

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Greatness Matters a Lot, Right?

"I really do want to focus on greatness. Not to be necessarily more creative, but to ... I think the research does suggest that talent matters a lot," he says. "Talent is not something that's fully formed or fully, you're not born with all the skills that can lead to talent." But there are certain potentialities that are influenced by genes which aid in rapid knowledge acquisition within a specific domain and it may take much later in life to make contact with that.

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