So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Chapter 6: The Career Capitalists
1.
“Salon Media Circus,”
Salon.com
, October 1997.

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Between the research and
editing phases of this book, the
online version of this column
seems to have been taken
offline. It was originally
available at:
http://www.salon.com/media/1997/10/29money.html
Chapter 7: Becoming a Craftsman
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Djakow, Petrowski, and
Rudik, Psychologie des
Schachspiels [Psychology of
Chess] (Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter, 1927).
2.
Charness, Tuffiash, Krampe, et
al., “The Role of Deliberate

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Practice in Chess Expertise,”
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19, no. 2 (2005): 151–65.
3.
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers:
The Story of Success (New
York: Little, Brown and
Company, 2008).
4.
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html
5.
Ericsson and Lehmann,
“Expert and Exceptional
Performance: Evidence of
Maximal Adaptation to Task
Constraints,” Annual Review of
Psychology 47 (1996): 273–
305.

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6.
Ericsson, Anders K. “Expert
Performance and Deliberate
Practice,”
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html
7.
Geoff Colvin, Talent Is
Overrated: What Really
Separates World-Class
Performers from Everybody
Else (New York: Portfolio
Hardcover, 2008).
8.
Geoff Colvin, “Why talent is
overrated,” 
CNNMoney.com
,
October 21, 2008 (originally
appeared in Fortune),
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_colvin.fortune/index.htm

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