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115: Joe Baker on the tyranny of talent

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The Power of Parents and Coaches in Sport

I was struck by the book about how it's grounded in the history of science and references to some of the forefathers of the scientific process. Galileo, Darwin and Galton and self. So you've got what you've got one average reader there at least. But there was a phrase in there about Galton's motivation, originally being around social improvement. It certainly wasn't intentional that way. The talent systems that we have at the moment are very sort of eugenic in the way that they're framed. I think if we've learned anything over the last 40 or 50 years of complexity science is that the interaction between all of these variables at an individual level, but also at

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