Sublime

In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.

• * Are modern polymaths


• * Explore their curiosities and meander


• * Follow the 5-Hour Rule (spending at least five hours per week on deliberate learning)

The difference between a beginner and the master—is that the master practices a whole lot more. —YEHUDI MENUHIN

There are three key practices needed in order to build and maintain a circle of competence: curiosity and a desire to learn, monitoring,

Talent, psychologist Dean Keith Simonton has suggested, is ‘best thought of as any package of personal characteristics that accelerates the acquisition of expertise’.

Ericsson notes that for a novice, somewhere around an hour a day of intense concentration seems to be a limit, while for experts this number can expand to as many as four hours—but rarely more.

Abilities often require a considerable amount of education and apprenticeship to develop. Just because you have a natural proclivity toward something doesn’t mean you’ll automatically be expert at it.

The ultimate goal of practice is to reach a state of what K. Anders Ericsson calls “eminent performance,” when a person goes “beyond the knowledge of their teachers to make a unique innovative contribution to their domain.

Les psychologues ont montré qu’il existe plusieurs voies qui mènent à la virtuosité. Mais l’itinéraire le plus fréquent commence par une période d’expérimentation, souvent peu structurée, avec seulement quelques cours et beaucoup d’instruments et d’activités, suivie seulement un peu plus tard par une spécialisation dans un cadre plus structuré avec