A friend Author Angela Hunt let me know about this NY Times article. Here’s an excerpt and the link for the full article is below. What do you think of this reasoning?

Quote from Review by Author Annie Murphy Paul-

“Motivational gurus from Dale Carnegie to Tony Robbins have long promised access to these hidden stores of genius. Now here comes David Shenk with “The Genius in All of Us,” which argues that we have before us not a “talent scarcity” but a “latent talent abundance.” Our problem “isn’t our inadequate genetic assets,” but “our inability, so far, to tap into what we already have.” The truth is “that few of us know our true limits, that the vast majority of us have not even come close to tapping what scientists call our ‘un­actualized potential.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/review/Paul-t.html?nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3