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“What great performers have achieved is the ability to avoid doing it automatically.”
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
“When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That’s why it’s easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.”
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
“Mozart’s first work regarded today as a masterpiece, with its status confirmed by the number of recordings available, is his Piano Concerto No. 9, composed when he was twenty-one. That’s certainly an early age, but we must remember that by then Wolfgang had been through eighteen years of extremely hard, expert training.”
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Manuel’s 2025 Year in Books
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