{"id":3351,"date":"2013-03-08T02:26:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2013-03-10T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:31:21","slug":"wheredoestalentcomefro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/?p=3351","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Greatness – Page 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHERE\u00a0DOES TALENT COME FROM?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

It’s a big question, and one way to approach it is to look at the places where talent seems to be located — in other words, to sketch a map. \u00a0In this case, the map would show the birthplaces of the 50 top men and women in a handful of professional sports, each sport marked by its own color. \u00a0The resulting image — what could be called a talent map — emerges looking like abstract art: vast empty regions interspersed with well-defined bursts of intense color, sort of like a Matisse painting.<\/p>\n

Canada, for instance<\/a>, is predictably cluttered with NHL Hockey players, but significant concentrations also pop up in Sweden, Russia and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

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Baseball stars<\/a> are generously sprinkled across the southern United States but the postage-stamp-size Dominican Republic isn’t far behind.<\/p>\n

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In women’s tennis<\/a>, we see dispersal around Europe and the United States, then a dazzling, concentrated burst in Moscow.<\/p>\n

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A quick analysis of this talent map reveals some splashy numbers: for instance, the average woman in South Korea is more than six times as likely to be a professional golfer as an American woman.<\/p>\n

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Currently in the Rolex women\u2019s world golf rankings<\/a>, South Koreans hold 4 of the top 10 spots, 10 of the top 25 spots and 36 of the top 100 spots. Only 16 Americans are ranked in the top 100.<\/p>\n

And how is it that Jamaica, a poor, underdeveloped nation of 2.8 million people — one-hundredth the size of the United States — has somehow managed to produce the fastest humans alive?<\/p>\n

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What force is causing those from certain far-off places to become, competitively speaking, superior?<\/p>\n

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