Part 3.  You Don’t Have to Fake it Anymore
The Great Recession of 2010 is wielding the axe, if you feel like a fraud—beware.  No matter what field you’re in, it’s getting harder to fake an interest in your work.   Bobbi knew for a decade that she wasn’t cut out for accounting. Her boss was even frank [...]

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 [...]

 . . . you may have become an architect, rather than a lawyer, or an anthropologist, rather than a computer scientist.
The brain and behavioral science community is bringing forth exciting new evidence that nature plays the dominant role in shaping our talents and traits.  Studies of identical twins raised apart in different environments turn out to [...]

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 [...]