“Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.” PeopleTwoMightHappensGamesBitsCenturyAdvantageTinyIceHockeySecondsCompetitorsBattlefieldsAccuracyWayneTwo DaysGretzky Author:Kevin Maney
“Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.” PeopleSeemsHoursNaturalKnownPracticeTalentNewsPerformancesExtremesUpliftingDeliberateProdigiesWiringSavantsDeliberate Practice Author:Kevin Maney
“Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.” PeopleCertainHoursBrainPracticeTalentAmountCircumstancesMarriedSuperstarWiring Author:Kevin Maney
“Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.” PeopleProcessBrainEasierFasterHockeyEfficientWayneChunksGretzky Author:Kevin Maney
“In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity - a fantastic experience - to thrive. Magazines will survive the Internet age, but only the ones that give people an experience they just can't get anywhere else. A magazine will have to be truly loved to make it.” PeopleGivingLongPlayRunningAgeInternetMagazinesFantasticThriveLong RunsStolenConvenienceFidelityHigh Fidelity Author:Kevin Maney
“If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you're halfway in between on both measures, you're not going to make people feel very excited about you.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsExcitedStanding OutHalfwayConvenienceFidelityHigh Fidelity Author:Kevin Maney