7 Master Tips From Tyler Cowen On How To Identify Top Talent For Any Project

Spotting talent is an essential skill to learn.

Without talent, your business, your project, and nearly everything else in your life will suffer. Everything occurs with and through other people, so learning to recruit great talent is imperative.

But it’s not just about spotting the “best” talent, like a world-class athlete.

It’s spotting underrepresented talent that’s been missed for some reason or another. Maybe they went to a central state college instead of Harvard. Or they’re more introverted than their extroverted counterparts.

Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross deliver a masterclass in identifying talent in their recent podcast with Patrick O’Shaughnessy.

It was so good that I had to listen to it a second time, take notes, and buy their book Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World.

Here are my 7 biggest takeaways on how to identify talent (and how they can help you too):

Identify their means.

Tyler looks for people who value the means versus ends.

“If someone says to you, I want to be the best drummer of all time. Well…