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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 5337995" data-attributes="member: 2209">Actually that's a myth. For most things you might have a predisposition to be a little better or worse at something but innate talent is basically a myth. Chess players have to learn, practice, and develop their games to get good. Nobody is born a good chess player.Did Christian Lindberg one day say &quot;I wonder if I am a good trombone player&quot; and Bam found out he was upon picking up a trombone and playing it?Was there perhaps opportunity, circumstance, practice, and development involved?Did you like playing football but did not play because your only opportunity was on competitive teams with limited slots and you were so terrible you could not qualify for them? If you had been playing continuously since you were six years old do you believe that no matter how much you practiced and conditioned you would always be terrible and not at any point good at it? Do you think you suffer from a physical condition or mental impairment that stopped you from ever developing past being terrible at the game?Or was it that you didn't want to play because it meant starting out terrible and you didn't like playing football as a terrible football player? That you perhaps thought you had better things to do than develop from being a terrible football player?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 5337995, member: 2209"] Actually that's a myth. For most things you might have a predisposition to be a little better or worse at something but innate talent is basically a myth. Chess players have to learn, practice, and develop their games to get good. Nobody is born a good chess player. Did Christian Lindberg one day say "I wonder if I am a good trombone player" and Bam found out he was upon picking up a trombone and playing it? Was there perhaps opportunity, circumstance, practice, and development involved? Did you like playing football but did not play because your only opportunity was on competitive teams with limited slots and you were so terrible you could not qualify for them? If you had been playing continuously since you were six years old do you believe that no matter how much you practiced and conditioned you would always be terrible and not at any point good at it? Do you think you suffer from a physical condition or mental impairment that stopped you from ever developing past being terrible at the game? Or was it that you didn't want to play because it meant starting out terrible and you didn't like playing football as a terrible football player? That you perhaps thought you had better things to do than develop from being a terrible football player? [/QUOTE]

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