The movie Ratatouille captured the sentiment much better, "a great chef can be anyone". Which is not the same as "anyone can be a great chef". The movie Ratato

The movie Ratatouille captured the sentiment much better, "a great chef can be anyone". Which is not the same as "anyone can be a great chef". The movie Ratatouille presented that statement without any evidence, and imo it is incredibly misleading, the preponderance of psychological evidence goes against it. This paper is a good starting place: http://cogprints.org/656/1/innate.htm http://cogprints.org/656/1/innate.htm