5 . Geoffrey Colvin, Talent Is Overrated: What Really
Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody
Else (New York: Penguin, 2008).
6 . Geoffrey Colvin, “Why Talent Is Overrated,” Fortune
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7 . “Seven ‘American Idol’ Rejects Who Made It Big.”
8 . Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of
Success (New York: Random House, 2006).
9 . Ibid.10 . K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens
Tesch-Römer, “The Role of Deliberate Practice in the
Acquisition of Expert Performance,” Psychological
Review (100, no. 3 1993): 363–406.
11 . Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born.
It’s Grown. Here’s How (New York: Random House,
2009).
12 . Ibid.
13 . Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer, “The Role of
Deliberate Practice.”
14 . Ibid.
15 . Ibid.
16 . Kim Wilson, Kelly Candaele, Lowell Ganz, and
Babaloo Mandel, A League of Their Own, directed by
Penny Marshall (United States: Sony Pictures Home