The recent NY Times article, Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters, reignited the nurture vs. nature debate on the talent front. Let’s jump in the game in support of the “nature” side of the argument.
The Chesapeake Bay Retriever instinct to retrieve is so strong that they literally moan with boredom if you don’t take them out to [...]
Why You Don’t Know That You Have Natural Talents
Let’s pick up where we left off in part 1 of 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
