Apr 04
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Talent
I have a very interesting discussion about ‘talent’ in Godote’s Forum. I used to believe in ‘talent’ but nowadays the concept of ‘talent’ seems a little bit annoying and useless.
What if you have talent? Makes you better than other people? How to ‘measure’ your talent? Scalable from 1 to 10? And what happened if your talent scores lower than the other? Is that make you ‘less’ talented?
See the absurdity of the concept of talent? Why don’t we just do what we like or want to do and put a real hard work on that? I think that probably will worth more than just ‘talent’. Believing and relying too much on talent can be hazardous… It can result in over/under confident also. Lots of people broke their heart because people said that they are not talented enough and lots of people get a baloon head because people said that they are very talented. Cut the crap, give credits to their effort and not their talent.
But hey, I could be wrong, probably talent is the most important thing in the world… but for myself, I choose not to rely on it too much. It was never worth it.
2 Comments
As Enda said, perhaps with talent one can accomplish his/her work more efficient. But, as any other factors in our life, it is not the only one. Efficient itself in some cases is not something that always interested to be followed: a mountain climber is more satisfied by hitting hard stone instead of simply reaching a top of mountain by helicopter, for example.
We do not wait for Godote (he… he… that’s forum), so it is not neccessary waiting too much “desperately seeking talent”.
enda @ April 28, 2004 2:00 AM
I think talent is important at first when u try to look for what is it that u r “good at”.
“Good at” as in, u don’t have to put so much effort as everybody else to achieve the same result on early phase.
However, what determine the end result will be other than talent :)