Posts Tagged ‘Blank slate’

Cracking the Talent Code: Part 2

Why You Don’t Know That You Have Natural Talents
Let’s pick up where we left off in part 1of this article series.  To recap, spatial ability is the little known, core talent that architects and surgeons need to mentally visualize in 3 dimensions.   Well educated mid-career professionals are bailing out of “successful” careers because they eventually hit [...]

What the heck is talent?

Are the people we call geniuses more gifted than the rest of us?  Experts who study the phenomenon of gifted people are letting the genie out of the bottle.  If you’re willing to put in over four solitary hours of hard work, every day over the next 10 years, maybe you can be a genius [...]

Parent Wonder: Nature vs Nuture Interview

A few years ago I did an interview for an online parenting magazine, ParentWonder.com. Their founder, Abel Cheng conducted a very insightful discussion to investigate the importance of recognizing kid’s natural abilities and how parents can hone or nurture their kid’s innate gifts. 
Here is the full interview. 
PS.  Those of us who are parents of sporting dogs are [...]

Nurture Thy Hardwiring

What makes us good at some things and terrible at other things?  Nature and Nurture both play a role.  Behavioral genetics is unraveling the mystery locked in our DNA code and neuroscience is finding the same evidence in our brain circuits.  We aren’t born as blank slates, as conventionally thought.  We each have some of our own pre-existing hardwiring, and, we have a [...]

Why Your Career Sucks

The aim of The Careerologist blog is to shine light on the underlying reasons why so few people are on the right career path. I’ve been a career design consultant for over 15 years and I’ve met a lot of unhappy people who are stuck in jobs that don’t utilize their natural talents. And lately, [...]