The Talent Thing: Why David Brooks Should Practice More

David Brooks' popular column today on studies tending to refute the general concept of genius or talent. As usual, Brooks' notices something about three years later. Perhaps if he'd been reading the New York Times, or Eisengeiste, for that matter.

One corollary he doesn't make: can there be a better refutation of the alleged virtues and glories of entitled social classes, like the tiny number of families with vast, persistent concentrations of capital, or the absurd levels of compensation for allegedly irreplaceable business geniuses?