David Shenk Quotes

• Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

  David Shenk

  Skills, Limits, Talent

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• Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

  David Shenk

  Lines, Giants, Microsoft

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• Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual

  David Shenk

  Character, Ongoing, Taught

  David Shenk (2010). “The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ”, p.13, Anchor

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• The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

  David Shenk

  Communication, Decision, Towns

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