The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice

by Scott Barry Kaufman

What are the origins of greatness? Few other questions have caused such intense debate, controversy, and diversity of opinions. In recent years, a large body of research has accumulated that suggests that the origins of greatness are extraordinarily complex. Instead of talent or practice, it's talent and practice. Instead of nature or nature, it's nature via nurture. Instead of practice, it's deliberate practice. Instead of the causes of greatness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199794006
• ISBN13: 9780199794003
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"