The Vision of Greatness
The Vision of Greatness
In the early 1990s, a man named Louis Rosenbaum began analyzing the
eyesight of Major League baseball players. He soon found out that
professional baseball players were nothing like the normal person when
it came to vision.
One of my favorite examples is tennis great Steffi Graf. When she was
tested against other elite tennis players as a teenager, she not only scored
the highest on physical attributes like lung capacity and motor skills, but
also on competitive desire. She was that once-in-a-generation talent who
was both the most-gifted and the most-driven person on the court.
If you want to learn more about the power of behavioral genetics, this
audio interview with behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin explains how
genes impact our daily habits and behaviors.