Having a good sense of humour really matters, says tyler cowan. But for most of the areas where i'm interviewing people, i don't think sense of humor correlates much with success. If i cannot pick up a person's sense of humor, say, on line, that's fine. It may be better not to pick it up. One question he found particularly peculiar was one of the open tabs on your bris browser right now. He has about 100 and 50 tabs open across to rousers.
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.