Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoYou could have a natural talent for something you will never attemptmessage-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down17
arrow-up1252arrow-down1message-squareYou could have a natural talent for something you will never attemptArchmage Azor@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareMerulox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down8·1 year agoIs there such a thing as talent that isn’t a byproduct of a high IQ and personal interest
minus-squareArchmage Azor@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up48arrow-down1·1 year agoWell, you could have perfect pitch
minus-squarelazylion_ca@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 year agoI used to climb towers for a living. Never thought I’d be into it but I actually really liked it and wish I’d started earlier in life and kept at it longer. Can guarantee the only high IQ involved a tape measure and a bad pun.
minus-squareStoneykins [any]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoYeah, almost all sports. Although maybe you don’t consider physical proportions and stuff like that “talent” exactly.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAnd wealth and other forms of privilege, in the case of formal education.
minus-squarepetenu@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThere’s also talents that are byproducts of being born to wealthy parents
Is there such a thing as talent that isn’t a byproduct of a high IQ and personal interest
Well, you could have perfect pitch
I used to climb towers for a living. Never thought I’d be into it but I actually really liked it and wish I’d started earlier in life and kept at it longer. Can guarantee the only high IQ involved a tape measure and a bad pun.
Yeah, almost all sports. Although maybe you don’t consider physical proportions and stuff like that “talent” exactly.
And education.
Education is a measure of stubbornness
And wealth and other forms of privilege, in the case of formal education.
There’s also talents that are byproducts of being born to wealthy parents