On 16 Sep, 12:22, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well does it?
>
> I say no, practice makes pefect, but what do you think?
Practice makes perfect but, how long does it take to train a
chimpanzee to write Shakespeare? To date, the only readable thing any
chimp has ever typed was the word 'Jamiroquai' (thus the name for Jay
Kay's band), which is completely meaningless. I had, for a long time,
been scared to attempt to play a guitar because, I felt, it took so
much time to learn it. But, after having one for about 3 weeks, I had
already developed one little ballad. But, of course, growing up with
a father who had a degree in music and a mother 'talented enough' to
teach herself voice and keyboards, I reckon that I'd inherited
something that made it a little easier for me to play music than it
would have been had I not had that genetic and environmental
kickstart, as it were. If talent exists, then it is, most likely, a
heritable trait, but there can be talents for many things. For
example, David Beckham has a natural talent for kicking a football
pretty accurately and, of course, that talent was noticed and further
developed. I doubt that I would have the same skill even if I had
been given the exact same 'development', as the underlying talent
isn't as great. Which is why, when I play footy, I'm either a
defender or, preferably, a goalkeeper, as I have a 'talent' for
getting myself in the way of others. This has even been evidenced in
some of the things I write. ;-)
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