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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RedTiger, post: 1236881, member: 19098&quot;]Sports are a good analogy for coin collecting. Hands on experience, coaching (mentoring), and a bit of book knowledge are the best ways for both sports and coins. Like sports, talent plays a large role in coins. A person with a natural eye for grading has a huge advantage over the average person. A person with naturally superior people skills, has a huge advantage in terms of negotiations and making dealer connections. A person with an analytical mind, will have an advantage in terms of learning and remembering pricing and available. For both sports and coins, some training, some homework, some coaching, can get a person to the average level, maybe a little above average. To move the exceptional level, some natural talent will go a long ways. A person with average natural skills, may have to work ten times as hard as the gifted person. Again, a natural eye for grading, good people skills for negotiating and getting deals, and an analytical detail-oriented mind for remembering pricing and scarcity, are natural talents that most of the exceptional dealers and collectors start with and why they are drawn to work in the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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