i spent allo of the sabbath this past week end lying in bed and reading. Of the non 16 hours, i read a collection of essay by hill l Halkin. It seems to me there's a certain set of writers, and i'm gong to put two other people in there, a george steiner and bryan doyle. They're not famous, they're not well known. But they're all essayists. And essays, i thinkare under undervalued in modern times.
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.