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Who do you believe?

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Practice makes perfect.  Yup, every one of us has heard that- probably a zillion times, too.

And, for decades that was the established fact.  Way back in 1993, Drs. Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Romer published their results:  The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance.  In that article, they declared that they could explain the difference between an elite performance and an amateur one by the amount of practice time involved.  Not fully 100%, but 80%- which made this a pretty definitive study.

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Leaders are made- so are followers!

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It turns out that there are genetic traits that determine whether we are leaders or followers.  Outgoing nature, intelligence, dominance, and physical attractiveness are traits that are associated with leaders. But, so followers have these same traits, too.   Which means that given these traits, one can be made into a leader OR a follower.

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