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The Role of Talent in Talent Development
Talent often describes very generalizable abilities. What we find here when we analyze high level of performers is that they have developed very specialized abilities and are adapted now to the particular kind of demands and constraints of the tasks that they're involved in. It makes more sense to assume now that any individual differences in the performance among experts is not reflecting the structure of the skill that they acquired rather than anything that they actually started out with. And combined with this fact that when you look at people as they get better, it seems that now the general abilities are no longer related to the individual differences in their ability to perform.