This week's blog post (which I'm a little late in sharing) is about "genius," the development of extraordinary abilities. We have a great cultural ambivalence about this type of ability, wanting to believe both that anyone can do anything with enough practice, and also that some people are naturally born to be great. You can see both of these threads in the stories that we tell about Olympic athletes. In this post, I come down pretty strongly on the side of practice: https://sites.google.com/view/two-minds/blog
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