Do you believe that all people have natural talents? I talked to someone at work about this and we disagreed with each other, I would be interested to see what some of you think. #askNostr
I'm not sure exactly how to evaluate that question. What everyone does have is a comparative advantage.
Natural talent? No. Even wizards have to practice to become a master.
This is my thoughts as well
Natural talent - it's just our 5 senses we all have and use. It's natural, we've had them since birth. Just as a mage would be born with the natural talent/ ability of magic. Anything other than our 5 senses, is a learned skill from our personal experiences in life.
probably, but not definitely. depends how you define "talents". very many "talents" may be functionally worthless in a given context (time, place, social situation, goals, etc.)
Here's a way to think about this: suppose it _were_ true that "all people have natural talents" - what are some mechanisms that would be at work that insure that fact is always true for everyone? if you can't think of how that would work, that's a strike against the hypothesis, no?
The whole development process up to birth. If your DNA is too dysfunctional, you don't make the cut. Even the lowest human has qualified to live as a human.
I do. Because we can all get very judgemental about people and races/genetics, my evidence comes from dogs. There is a game called Schutzhund that includes a part where a german shepherd bites the handlers (heavily wrapped) arm and doesn't let go. My german shepherd bitch descends from a Schutzhund champion. And unlike any dog I've ever known, if I wrap a towel around my arm she wants to bite my arm. I never taught her that. Uncanny. Also, when we walk down the valley, she goes to the opposite side. She tought me to do this... so if we flush any animals either way they run, one of us can catch them (well I can't but she doesn't know this). That was inborn, nobody taught her, and I didn't even think of it, she taught me. I raised her from a pup. So yes we all have natural talents. Different ones too.
Talents follow a distribution that can be approximated by a bell curve. Just that fact alone means there’s people who are just going be in the worse end in most relevant talents anyway. It may not be many people, but likely there have been, are, and will be.
No. Some people might be more able to do certain things from the get go, and some people learn things at a faster rate, but every skill still needs to be nurtured. We’re born tabula rasa (blank slates) and it’s up to ourselves to acquire the tools, skills, and knowledge necessary to produce anything of value. The “naturally smart” philosopher was not born with the privilege of reason, he had to learn it. A person with two fingers who puts in the work will be better at guitar than any virtuoso who doesn’t practice; even the virtuoso is not born with the innate skill of “guitar playing”. Only a trained baker can make consistently good pies. Someone might be naturally “good” at making mud-pies; but that’s not a talent — rather a lack-there-of.