What makes us successful and exceptional? This is one of the most arguable inquiries and there have been various kinds of responses and various attempts have been proposed by psychologists. While majority of analysis has been focused on innate factors as a key of success, others have concluded that talent is something that could be taught and enough to succeed. The idea that talent can be possessed is the central point of the second chapter entitled ''Sweet Spot" of Conan Doyle's book The Talent Code. However, In the article ''Your genes don’t fit why 10,000 hours of practice won’t make you an expert'' by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek offer the new theory that innate talent plus practice equals success or nature plus nurture equals success. …show more content…
This principle seems to be unrealistic. According to his argument, everyone is born with equal level of talent and only those can excel towards success who practice deeply. His theory undermines the role of individual and private capabilities on the road to achieve success. It reveals a question from one of his supporting examples that if each of the Brazilian soccer players practice deeply in the team, why only one or two of them shows better performance and become world-class such as Pele, Robinho and Ronaldinho? Every careful reader can easily notice this question, and when they do not find any response for the question, they could disappoint. Coyle's promoting examples precisely fail to explain this question. Hence, he just passes through this important difference and neglects to pay attention …show more content…
For instance, they use effectively Warren Buffet as an example in order to substantiate their argument (Grandin & Panek, 2013). Although Buffet is working as chief operating officer, it does not mean that he was born with a brain for CEO. Indeed, ''he was born with a brain for business — a brain that would lend itself to number-crunching and risk-taking and opportunity-identifying and all the other skills that go into becoming the leading investor of his generation'' (Grandin & Panek, 2013). After he applied ten thousand hour rule, he could smoothly became a CEO. Being used of real life example make the authors' argument evidentiary and leads readers to believe spontaneously the theory. Moreover, Grandin and Panek quote from Sorry that ''you do not possess a natural gift for a certain job, because targeted natural gifts don’t exist''. (Grandin & Panek, 2013). This citation makes readers free from