okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Steve Martin's Talent Code
I spent some time reading The Talent Code at lunch today. The book's subtitle is "Greatness isn't born. It's grown. Here's how." Every page or two, I read something that makes me think about orienteering or raises a question. I making my way through the book very slowly, reading a couple of pages a day.
Over lunch, I was thinking about the parallels between the ideas in The Talent Code - ideas about practice and about how high-level performers develop - and Steve Martin's book about being a comedian. Here's a Steve Martin quote:
"...Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success."
