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[QUOTE="rifflemao, post: 2344182, member: 98323"]
Here is a TED talk on grit and talent by Angela Duckworth, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UPenn.

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Here is her [URL="http://sasupenn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_06f6QSOS2pZW9qR"]grit test[/URL].

She basically says that grit is a better predictor of success than talent or natural ability.

I'm not sure what kind of natural ability some of the younger poker greats had when they started out, but it seems that players who started in games like chess or Magic The Gathering tend to do very well in poker. I would say that hardcore gamers in general have developed some natural ability for online poker.

I think that great online multi-tablers like Greg Merson and winning SNE's on Pokerstars clearly gain an edge over the rest of us because they hit the 10,000 hour threshold (and\or Xmillion hands-played threshold) faster. I try not to think about it because it's discouraging.

Merson had some early failures in poker to overcome though, along with some personal hurdles. I would definitely say that guy has both talent and grit, but I think the latter served him most in becoming a world champ.
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