The Rage To Master Summary

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The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts was a chapter in the book The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice by Scott B. Kaufman. This chapter was written by Ellen Winner and Jennifer E. Drake. In the chapter, the authors attempt to separate hard work (commonly referred to as deliberate practice in the literature, but they prefer the term: “rage to master”) from talent. They argue that talent is innate, and therefore exists prior to hard work. A rage to master leads to hard work, and hard work within a domain leads to increasing levels of achievement. They propose four possible groups combining hard work and talent. Using children and drawing as an example, the first group consists of the majority

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