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The article poses a false equivalence.

First off, there are absolutely people with greater skills, many of them made at birth, though I'll get back to that. You cannot take a B (or a Z) and make them an A.

But you can make an A into a B (or Z). Give them poor nutrition, childhood diseases, knocks on the head, environmental toxins, poor education. Or a toxic workplace, bad task fit, or other workplace issues. You can really easily take someone with a ton of talent and squelch it.

That's the real lesson here.



Agreed




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