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-up21arrow-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-up49arrow-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-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago I used to climb towers for a living How does that work? Why did they pay you to climb towers?
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.
How does that work?
Why did they pay you to climb towers?
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