One of the most important findings in sports genetics is that your ability to improve with respect to a certain training program is mediated by your genes, so it’s really important to find the kind of training program that’s best tailored to your physiology. … The skills it takes for team sports, these perceptual skills, nobody is born with those. Those are completely software, to use the computer analogy. But it turns out that once the software is downloaded, it’s like a computer. While your hardware doesn’t do anything alone without software, once you’ve got the software, the hardware actually makes a lot of a difference in how good of an operating machine you have. It can be obscured when people don’t study it correctly, which is why I took on some of the 10,000 hours stuff.
More here – Radar
PS : The above quote is also important for traders, in that you need to find the approach to trading that suits you.
Thanks Chris,
Below is a quote from the podcast.
I wonder how close it comes to being a definition of trading?
‘There’s a philosopher I love named Bernard Suits
who wrote a book where he tried to come up with a single thematic definition of all sports and games and he comes up with;
“The voluntary acceptance of unnecessary obstacles”
and to me I think it takes something away from sort of
the core value of sports if you’re circumventing those obstacles you voluntarily accepted.’
– David Epstein author of The Sports Gene
Cheers
Bruce