talent

First, the young talent who can grow into a superstar.

Few sights could be more dispiriting to the rest of English soccer than Liverpool cruising to a championship last spring and immediately adding half a billion dollars’ worth of talent.

“Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training,” he writes.

They settled in Philadelphia and, as a teenager, he learned engraving and earned a living incising designs for silverware firms—no doubt honing his talent for detail.

“He has really, really good arm talent—and a lot stronger arm than people give him credit for.”