i think right now the place with the most undiscovered talent by far, is india. I don't think that's a permanent state of affairs. But these things come and go like a quarantine. Even canada, i'm very bullish on talent in ontario. When i see an application fromOntario, i get excited. It's going to have the wordsontario and excited in the same sentence. That means something. Ah, and by the way, if you're goin to read bryan doyle, one long river of song, that's the book to read. Ah, butl hawkins collectionis called a complicated jew. Get ten of those, 12
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.