Best-selling author, Geoff Colvin, is senior editor at Fortune magazine. His book, "Talent is Overrated," is a famous inspiring book. He encourages under-performing people through the book. He stresses that great performance is in people's hand, all you need to do is deliberate practice and talent is minimal. People should have more confidence in themselves because as long as they put in effort and hard work, success is available to anyone. Deliberate practice is a highly structured activity engaged in with the specific goal of improving performance; it is different from work, play and repetition of task. Deliberate practice is the key to great performance and Colvin is convincing about that since he is able to provide detailed evidences of it and how it can be apply to all people. Colvin mentions several examples to prove his claim that talent is not a leading factor to great performance. Jerry Rice played football since high school and he played it well, but his skill is nothing exceptional compared to professional players. He was just an average player and no one would ever think that he would become one of the greatest receivers in NFL history. It took him years of deliberate practice and effort to become the legend in the football world. "These workouts became legendary as the most demanding in the league, and other players would sometimes join Rice just to see what it was like. Some of them got sick before the day was over" (Colvin 53). Rice designed his own practices and it focused on aspects that he wasn't as good as others. His practices were very difficult and exhausting but he still persevered and did his workouts diligently to show that he could become the best with deliberate practice. Tiger Woods is the best golfer ever and everyone think he is born with extraordinary talent. Truth is that his "talent" was developed from his intensive practice. He started training ever since he was a baby and was coached every day by his father. "At that point he had been practicing golf with tremendous intensity, first under his father and after age four under professional teachers, for seventeen years.  Woods also practiced golf his whole life, ever since he was born and there was no certainty that he was naturally talented at golf and yet he became the most outstanding golfer in the industry" (Colvin 30). The cases of Jerry Rice and Tiger Woods make evident that practice is the crucial to great performance because both of them worked extremely hard to get where they are now which makes Colvin's view of talent is overrate