Comments on: Talent: A difference that makes a difference

By: Beth Howle

Beth Howle — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:57:33 +0000

This is what I believe. People say that I am talented in art. What this really means is that I have been deliberately practicing at least since I was 5 years old. People who say, “I wish I could draw like you do,” don’t mean it literally. If they did, they would start practicing. People who say, “I can only draw stick figures!” are making an excuse to avoid trying to draw better than stick figures, so they’ll never draw better. Why don’t people say, “I can’t drive, I can only ride a bicycle”?

By: festus

festus — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:23:45 +0000

does a person has more than one or two talent

By: gregdowney

gregdowney — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:15:07 +0000

Yes, Joe Talent, it is possible to believe one’s cultural categories quite successfully. Even run a business based on them. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that these particular categories are the best way to understand a scientific issue. Selling people on the concept of talent is easy — most Westerners believe it already — but that doesn’t mean it’s accurate. You might consider reading research on elite skill acquisition. If you do, you’ll find that this research is often MORE critical of the idea of talent than I am. I actually think that there are pre-existing differences in ability that get sorted by the social apparatus that believes in ‘talent.’

By: Joe Talent

Joe Talent — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:40:07 +0000

Please feel free to have a look at this article here: ‘What is Talent?’

http://www.talent-technologies.com/new/2011/08/what-is-talent/

Certainly as the brain develops, there is a clear development of ‘talents’ and these have been mapped in a scientific, objective way.

Being a sportsman myself I have little doubt that the nature of these talents translate into performance differences in numerous different fields of sport.

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By: Dr. Harald Kreuzer

Dr. Harald Kreuzer — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:49:24 +0000

in the discussion about talent being to a large extent a matter of deliberate practice, I wonder if this assertion has not a threshold at the upper end, i.e.: can this assertion also be maintained for exceptional talents in science such as Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Glenn Gould?

I would appreciate your view.

With kind regards

H. Kreuzer

By: Peter Vint of the US Olympic Committee on genes and nurture | Neuroanthropology

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:49:35 +0000

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By: Zoe Goode

Zoe Goode — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:53:05 +0000

Immensly interesting and well informed. Thank you for sharing. : )

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