Comments on: Experts Are Made, Not Necessarily Born http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2006/08/16/experts-are-made-not-necessarily-born/ Dr. John Grohol's daily update on all things in psychology and mental health. Since 1999. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:39:35 -0400 hourly 1 By: larry http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2006/08/16/experts-are-made-not-necessarily-born/comment-page-1/#comment-81271 larry Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:37:28 +0000 http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2006/08/16/experts-are-made-not-necessarily-born/#comment-81271 It seems obvious but many people like to think that innate skills explain why some people are successful and others are not. If you aren't born with the skill then maybe you aren't responsible for your lack of success. You have to learn good skills to develop any abilties. In school lots of teens don't develop good study skills. One place for help is www.slssystem.com It has books for teens - jr high, high school and home school students - showing them how to handle academic subjects - how to study and learn better. Good methods help us build skills better. It seems obvious but many people like to think
that innate skills explain why some people
are successful and others are not. If you
aren’t born with the skill then maybe you
aren’t responsible for your lack of success.

You have to learn good skills to develop any
abilties. In school lots of teens don’t
develop good study skills. One place for
help is http://www.slssystem.com

It has books for teens – jr high, high
school and home school students – showing
them how to handle academic subjects – how
to study and learn better. Good methods
help us build skills better.

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