What is talent?
If there's one thing I've heard repeatedly throughout my life, from any number of sources, it's what I can and can't do. Future-tense, rather than present-tense. "You can't do [X] because it's not something you can learn", or "You shouldn't bother trying to do [X] because it's something only a talented few are capable of".
I don't believe in talent, never have. It has always felt like a cop-out mindset. It's as though it's an excuse to not bother trying, perhaps even the talk of a quitter. A person who has 'talent' is a person who has spent a specific amount of time focusing on learning everything they can surrounding one or many skills or topics, a person who has focus and determination.
I think the secret to success is to just ignore anyone telling you what you can't do and focus on what you want to achieve. They're probably just basing their line of thought on what already exists, what has already been done, or what they've become used to. Ignoring those people is the only way to ever really achieve anything.
I don't believe in talent, never have. It has always felt like a cop-out mindset. It's as though it's an excuse to not bother trying, perhaps even the talk of a quitter. A person who has 'talent' is a person who has spent a specific amount of time focusing on learning everything they can surrounding one or many skills or topics, a person who has focus and determination.
I think the secret to success is to just ignore anyone telling you what you can't do and focus on what you want to achieve. They're probably just basing their line of thought on what already exists, what has already been done, or what they've become used to. Ignoring those people is the only way to ever really achieve anything.