Tyler Cowen on Talent

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to podcasts, just so long, argues economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, as it makes you better at what you already do. Perhaps more than anything else, he believes, it's practice that divides middle managers from founders, and mere good hires from the creative obsessives who end up transforming the world. Join Cowen and EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a conversation about Talent, Cowen's new book on how (and how not) to identify the talented. Hear Cowen explain why, for high-level positions, unstructured interviews are important, why stamina is usually preferable to grit, and why credentials are largely a relic of the past.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is July 24, 2022.
0:39.8	My guest today is the great Tyler Cowan of George Mason University.
0:44.1	He blogs at Marginal Revolution.
0:46.2	His podcast is Conversations with Tyler.
0:49.1	This is his 16th appearance on econtalk.
0:52.0	He's the last year in April of 2022 talking about reading.
0:57.6	Our topic for today is his new book, Talent, Co-Arthur with Daniel Gross.
0:59.9	Tyler, welcome back to econtalk.
1:02.4	Hello, Russ.
1:03.4	Happy to be here, as always.
1:05.4	So this is an unusual book for you.
1:08.2	It's a pretty real world.
1:09.2	Not that your books aren't real world, generally, but this is very real world.
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