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Athleticism is absolutely an inborn talent. It certainly can be developed, but just look at any sport where all of the participants started at the same age in l

Athleticism is absolutely an inborn talent. It certainly can be developed, but just look at any sport where all of the participants started at the same age in life and all received roughly the same number of repetitions/practices- there are logarithmic differences in ability. If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just massive, massive differences between different players. Frankly, this is true of literally every field. Like, imagine we all started in programming at age 10 and all received the same level of instruction- by age 20 there are again just huge, huge differences between where people are at ability-wise. It's unfair and doesn't fit into a lot of meritocratic 'just work hard and you'll end up at the top!' narratives (which are especially popular in the US), but it's sadly true

ordu 7y ago
> If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just massive, massive differences between different players. It may be explained by a dedication to a learning, by general abilities to learn, by nutrition, by inborn muscles properties (type I or type II), and probably by a dozen of other factors. I mean, what you'd said doesn't imply that differences in ability to play basketball are due to an amount of inborn athleticism received.
InitialLastName 7y ago
> If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went > to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just > massive, massive differences between different players. Those differences come from a lot of places, not least that the people who ended up on the better end of the stick almost certainly found every opportunity they could to play basketball outside of practice. My sister and I both played sports and learned about computers in school. She spent lots of her spare time after school and on weekends shooting baskets in the driveway. I spent that time messing around on computers and taking things apart. Any guesses which of us ended up the better athlete and which the better engineer?

ordu 7y ago

> If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just massive, massive differences between different players. It may be explained by a dedication to a learning, by general abilities to learn, by nutrition, by inborn muscles properties (type I or type II), and probably by a dozen of other factors. I mean, what you'd said doesn't imply that differences in ability to play basketball are due to an amount of inborn athleticism received.

InitialLastName 7y ago

> If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went > to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just > massive, massive differences between different players. Those differences come from a lot of places, not least that the people who ended up on the better end of the stick almost certainly found every opportunity they could to play basketball outside of practice. My sister and I both played sports and learned about computers in school. She spent lots of her spare time after school and on weekends shooting baskets in the driveway. I spent that time messing around on computers and taking things apart. Any guesses which of us ended up the better athlete and which the better engineer?