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What you call "the talent and the 'knack' for it" is simply acquired skill. Anyone willing to put in the hours of deliberate practice will get the skill. There
by ovi256 17y ago
What you call "the talent and the 'knack' for it" is simply acquired skill. Anyone willing to put in the hours of deliberate practice will get the skill. There is no inborn 'knack', except simple stuff such as being taller helps basketball.
- Spyou 17y agocan't agree more!
- eplanit 17y agoSo, anyone who sings (deliberately trying, I'll grant you) for long enough will be a great singer. Anyone who swings a golf club long enough will be a great golfer. Simply trying hard at something for a long time leads to greatness.....I completely disagree. Talent is a word with meaning that is separate and apart from experience. Witness, I ask you, the legion of mediocre talent that fill the halls of Corporate IT. Many of those folks did just fine in their Comp. Sci. programs. However, the talent to create and devise is not achieved by 'practice'. For many -- the curiosity fades and it becomes a 'job'. (For those, the pairing idea might actually help a lot, by the way) When an individual has _both_ talent and experience, they're worth something. With only one, they're not.
- ovi256 17y agoA very common misconception. There's an active scientific field, sociology of performance, that studies exactly this, how excellence is made, and they have simply concluded that talent equals experience. I recommend "The mundanity of excellence" by Chambliss. Here's a scribd link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2926754/The-Mundanity-of-Excellence http://www.scribd.com/doc/2926754/The-Mundanity-of-Excellenc... "So, anyone who sings (deliberately trying, I'll grant you) for long enough will be a great singer. Anyone who swings a golf club long enough will be a great golfer." Yup, that's it, as long as it's deliberate practice - which is not just practicing deliberately.