Know your strength CH1

今天的内容一直在强调天赋的重要性，作者的意思是只有做你有天赋的事情，才能做的出色，否则你再怎么努力也没法做到顶尖。这个和PEAK《刻意练习》的观点大相径庭，让我有些难以接受。因为以前我也觉得没有做好什么事是因为天赋，但《刻意练习》说到，只要找对练习的方法，进行练习-反馈-练习这样的正向循环，没有什么是练不好的。

所以我只能理解要做到世界上5%这样的顶尖，天分才必须吧。不过今天文章中关于巴菲特的故事很喜欢：不碰不懂的东西，保持耐心。这也是这几年交了投资的学费才领悟到的。

Expressions

1. It's easy to grasp, but hard to apply.

2.carve ˈout: 

He loves what he does and genuinely believes that his reputation as the world’s greatest investor is due to his ability to carve out a role that plays to his particular strengths.”

 to develop a career or position for yourself by working hard

3.懂除了用understand,还可以用形象的paint an accurate picture of

“Remember, he didn’t invest in either Microsoft or the Internet because he didn’t feel he could paint an accurate picture of where high-tech was going to be in twenty years.)”