How to Find the Most Talented People on Earth
Five-year old Brazilian boys playing soccer at Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Today’s rising stars are younger, weirder, and more geographically concentrated than you might think.
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How should we cultivate talent? This is a question I spend hours a day thinking about, trying to discover an answer. And as part of my work running Emergent Ventures, an organization that makes rapid grants to qualified applicants, over the last seven years I have been holding regular conversations every week with many of the world’s smartest young people. We now have more than 1,000 Emergent winners across the globe. Here are some of the lessons I have been learning:
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