Archmage Azor to Showerthoughts • 10 months agoYou could have a natural talent for something you will never attemptmessage-square17arrow-up1261arrow-down18
arrow-up1253arrow-down1message-squareYou could have a natural talent for something you will never attemptArchmage Azor to Showerthoughts • 10 months agomessage-square17
minus-square@MeruloxlinkEnglish13•10 months agoIs there such a thing as talent that isn’t a byproduct of a high IQ and personal interest
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•10 months 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!linkfedilink1•10 months ago I used to climb towers for a living How does that work? Why did they pay you to climb towers?
minus-squareStoneykins [any]linkfedilink10•10 months agoYeah, almost all sports. Although maybe you don’t consider physical proportions and stuff like that “talent” exactly.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•10 months agoAnd wealth and other forms of privilege, in the case of formal education.
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilink5•10 months 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