David Beckham in fact trained very hard and put in an imensse amount of practice kicking a ball so that it dropped exactly where he wanted it to. Of course an early interest in a subject means that you start the practice earlyer.
There is something in biological triats that may make the performing of some actions easier, but this I would say is not talent, but biological advantage. On 16 Sep, 12:58, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
