The worst part is when some parents, teachers or coaches use the concept of "born with a talent" to encourage one child .. they're unconsciously discouraging the other children .

it matters HOW you're studying...

talent is the ability to improve. the more talent, the higher rate of improvement.

Bob Ross once said: "Talent is no more than a pursued interest.", & I agree

I firmly believe that a person can be trained and can achieve skills he wants to develop. If animals and birds are trained by human beings, why can't a human being develop a skill he want. I hate when I hear a sentence like we should accept the fact that we are not gifted with that skills and should not pursue particular thing. ANY PASSIONATE SKILLS CAN BE DEVELOPED. Parenting makes a huge difference.

Corrosive? Well I, for one, think that the very idea of talent is a toxic idea, too. It gives people the idea that if they aren't innately super good at anything, they might as well give up doing anything else than bullshit, robot-worthy jobs, because they don't have "the Talent™". It also give them an excuse and consider creation as way more monolithic and deterministic than it really is. They look at an artist and say "Yeah but it's (kinda) easy, THEY have a talent for that!". No it's not. It's not easy. It's not fast. It's not even pleasant. It was probably a very rough journey with lots of disillusionment, despair and soul-crushing efforts. If anything, talent is the ability to love the craft IN SPITE of how little gratification you can take from it. Talent is basically "tenacity with or without results". Of course you will also need a good ability to criticize your own work, or else you won't ever be able to improve. That can be seen as talent too. But people need to stop believing that talent is just a hard cap that you have or don't have.

‘The paradox of excellence is that it’s built upon the foundation of necessary failure’. I think that this is very true, I remind myself of this every day, when I practise playing my guitar.

Talent is never innate. Read the book “the genius in all of us” and you’ll learn about all the scientific research that points to how talent is truly made.

They are people who are born with specific qualities, which can make them succeed at a quicker rate. They are people who have good memory, great hand coordination, and they have incredible focus. I still think practice is more important, you have to keep practicing if you want to get good at what you want to do. You can have a natural talent but still make a ton of mistakes, that's why it's so important to practice at a consistent basis.

yeah and then some 3 year old in a diaper walks out on stage and plays the guitar like a pro

I believe that pre-knowledge of one subject being implemented into another is talent assuming you excel in it. For an example, when I was in elementary school I loved to rollerblade very fast which in return helped me get leverage over other students in 60m dash. Later on when I went to a regional competition and I scored 2nd on the leaderboard a coach who had won many Olympic championships came to me and said "hey, you're talented, would you want to join my training". See what I'm talking about

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee

I do believe in practice, but I seem not to practice enough for whatever reason. Thanks for sharing this.

Talent cannot even be defined. How come all these talented people only seem to excel at one activity. How many people are world champions at 2 or more sports? Talent is a lot more attractive than hard work. It's the easiest excuse to use when you fail. Oh I didn't put the hours in that I should have.

Thank you for BTY for this awesome video & nice presentation ❤❤❤

This is excellent. Thank you.

I know that practice makes perfect but this information has given a new insight to unlock the latent potentiality within and boost up my confidence that I can be the best with dedicated practice.. Thank you so much...

Well I can say after watching your videos that your surely on a good way to become an influential speaker someday Hoping to see u at that place😃😃😃

Practice for sure!) I'm an artist and got used to hear "Oh you're so happy, you're talented") But it was only when I starting making art on a daily basis and profecionally when I realized how unfair it was) Like people don't tell you "Wow , how many hours did you spend, how much efford did you make?", etc) I think it's only some excuse for the majority to explane their underperformance in something) Thanks for your channel!)

One of the best videos on the Internet. It is time that more people nowadays starting to watch such important videos to develop their selves.

Your videos are really inspirational... Keep it up and make more videos... God bless you...

Very good video. In math, intuition is important, but you also have to be able to focus selectively on information and follow-up with analytical thinking to solve problems.

This reminds of something that happened to me. Throughout my childhood my brothers knew how to whistle well enough and i didnt. Then when I got older, one day I just decided to start practcing every time of the day I could, and in a few months i could whistle very very well.I still practice whistling at every opportunity i get and now u can whistle any song i want, so its pretty cool

I think what we're missing here is pure love. I mean think of it, if you have something that you naturally love then you're obviously going to put more hours in it. From what I feel, the things you are good at are the things that can express you the most thus, making you naturally incline to trying to 'express' yourself better. Maybe this whole thing (what we do) is a reflection of what we are best. Love is the paint, abilities are the paintbrush and practice as the canvas. You know you can't just overlook the things you love. It just shows who you are as a whole. and when you think of it, everyone has a different way of expressing themselves. This is just my two cents btw. It's different for everyone.

if you take 100 people, give them 10,000 hours of training on anything from guitar to being a fighter pilot or baseball pitcher, they will not all be at the same level, some will have a knack for it and be very very good

When I was 14, I'd get annoyed when people commented on my "talent" for playing the flute. "I don't believe in talent," I'd say, "Anyone could do it if they practiced." I'm glad the science is there to back up my inner child who still wants to scream at people who call me "talented".

Talent exists when it comes to athletics. I don’t think I could run or train hard enough to ever run a 4.3 40 yard dash. That kind of speed you have to be born with good genes. I trained harder than anyone else on my football team and was a good player, but has physical limitations, I wasn’t 250 lbs nor would I ever be. And I was fast but not 4.3 fast

I believe talent does exist... But it's not a guarantee for success. Natural talent is great and all, and you might improve faster than someone without talent, but it's worthless if you don't put in the work to improve upon it. Practicing something will inevitably make you improve, talent might make you see results faster, but at the end of the day, regardless of talent or not, you will be better than you were before you started. Talent is a base, hard work and consistent practice is what will push the people who use it to go further than people with talent. Don't worry about being talented or not, just focus on improving and being better than you were when you started.

talent is to be able to work hard with concentration

For me, talent is just a matter of perspective. There are close to infinite variables that make us the way we are and the way we think, it's just having a sufficient amount of encouragement and discouragement that we have towards a certain field. In some cases, talent is defined as having a better physique or genetics, where a person is given the potential of having a better chance of being better than others. That's basically how far talent goes, where talent is merely a multiplier or a head start that is given to you throughout or in the future after you were born.

Isn't hardwork itself a talent? :P

“Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.”

Life changing lesson to the people underestimate themselves by comparing relatively with those so called talented.

i feel the talent like something you really love to do and when you are doing it you are not on autopilot and soo its seems you easier than the others things

Talent exits. It's a special individual trait that u are born with that NOBODY else can have...... I've personally see two pianists go head to head (One went to A LOT of piano lessons and the other just played it for fun and was a bit rusty). The guy that DIDN'T play it as often as the other COMPLETELY DESTROYED the other guy, making a complete fool of him. So that shouldn't even be a question, you can even look at the music industry.... some musicians have certain capabilities that other CAN'T DUPLICATE NO MATTER HOW HARD THEY WANT TO WORK AT MASTERING THEIR SKILLS.

This just gave me hope again

Great video - the theory should be inspirational to all! However, it always amazes me from comments how some people 'instinctively' still believe in 'talent' and reference 'natural tendencies' etc. We are ALL products of our upbringing, what our parents/gaurdians do to feed, protect, entertain, challenge and nurture us. This is the early 'practice' that provides so called 'natural tendencies' at young ages. (physical disability or impairment is obviously going to have an impact here), but, we are all born with a blank canvas as babies - Walking. talking, holding a spoon etc is ALL an attained skill through deliberate practice. These basic abilities go on to influence what we 'like' or prefer to do, and they are normally heavily linked to something that our parents/friends have said we are 'good' at - that leads to more play/practice in that field - drawing, music, baseball,golf, football, maths. If we then start to really enjoy that field, we will do it more and more, and continue to improve - that is the basic process for 'developing' any skills or abilities as a child. After that, the level we achieve comes down to the theory in the video about further extensive particular purposeful training! However, research shows that deliberate practice/hard work can be done at ANY age - and it still works, you may not become 'world class' or 'elite level', but you can become great, and EVERYONE else will say - 'he/she has got a talent for X' about YOU!

so the message is "its ok we are all mediocre people"... talent exist that's a reality, but lazy talent will be surfaced with hard work... hard working talent is another level...

I knew how to draw since 3rd grade (furthest memory i have with drawing). Ever since i been drawing for fun, I never took it seriously, no competition, other than me getting jealous of people in my class with good skills. But i dont know if i should use those skills for a living or just a hobby. i drew the same things over and over again. Soon people began to think i was obsessed with it. Truthfully, i wasnt i just enjoyed drawing it. I asked one of my family members who took care of me since i was born they said i was horrible at it. I wondered how i got these skills. Should i be proud that people call it skill not talent?

Yes because Ive spent hours a week doing math for the last two months and I’m becoming more proficient. I have no talents only the hope that something will come out of this studying.

Thank you for this !

I was one of those kids who was bored during math classes because it was too easy for me. Never did homework in my life. At the same time, there were girls in our class who simply can't get it, despite doing all the homework and putting a lot of efforts. If you study people at music and sports schools you already study the talented ones. Why on earth will you go to the special school if you have no inclination whatsoever? For ordinary school kids who had no chance to choose what to study the story would be completely different. The study regarding the music school simply shows that people who have a talent and are hard-working at the same time performing better than people who only have talent. Kinda obvious.

All those wolrd renown artists should feel offended when people say " God gave you that talent" hahahah

...wow, I've never considered the idea that not all practice is equal...

To me, genes do play a role but ultumately it's all hardwork and practice that stand out. Genes should just be thought as an advantage and the only factor for success is hard work

eye opening video. thanks.

I believe in hard and smart work. Hard and smart work makes you talented and famous. Because, Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard. 😊

Thank you 😢❤️

You can't really study for an IQ test

That's it,, I'm done,, it's too late,, the world porbably gonna end or I gonna die first before I can achieve something,,,

Also, going deeper, violin EXISTS since we defined what it was, as well as music theory… If there was a factor that made you better at violin it wouldn’t be called in your human database of talents a “good in violin” but something related to maybe capacity on focusing on the music and execution at the same time. Since music, arts and theater are mere formats and adaptations in the practical part of what art could be, talent becomes as ambiguous as Astrology… I believe that it all comes down to childhood, the very first things you absorb as a sponge, which are not just “inputs and stimuli” but different ways of putting aspects of the world in your way of mechanizing and connecting them to the rest. Most artists that become good in an instrument become also very “good” in all other arts, because all the formats touch the same areas, even science, which can expand so much the artistic flexibility that there is no real limit to their skills IN our world. This comment IS to contrary the basic idea of something being constructed step by step, YES, of COURSE it is, but there are people that become faster at something from how they have experienced the world, we are all different, right?

THANKKKK YOUUUUU❤️ I was always afraid to follow my dreams coz i believed i had no talent

I can draw simply because I really want to draw and I draw every single day almost through out the day back then.

Highly inspiring

As practice is crucially important, but talent is there screaming loudly even in the animations you put in your video. For instance the guy who was carrying weight in your animation would practice and suffer way less if he was lean body than other child who is over weight because of his genes or because of his hormones. Violinist who have better fine motor muscles will need way less practice to get better results than someone who have cerebral palsy for instance. Or dyslexic people who cannot read but they are genius artists. Even patience to practice is talent, memory is talent, musical memory is talent, passion is talent. My friend talent is a physical, mental , psychological ability guided by someone genes, environment and experience. Saying that people have same abilities is merely simplify things and put people who are unable under a huge pressure. Einstein once said everyone is genius but don't judge the fish by not being able to climb a tree make

I feel and have experienced the same thing- all practice is not equal.

This video is a gem

Where can I find the source for the autopilot vs deep concentration studies?

thank you !

Can we have the reference of the investigation of British musicians that you talk about at 1:22 ? Thanks

I've never heard of somebody mastering anything without working hard for it. What I do see however, are child "prodigies" that never grew up to get better than they were 5. It seems practice makes perfect, and being perfect cannot replace practice.

You should make a video on Wilma Rudolph... She wasn't born "lucky" at all... But went on to become the greatest runner...

I think there are many factors. But maybe the essence of incorporating a skill is BELIEVING YOU CAN. For example, if a kid is seen as a talented person in some activity, then he will grow up with that belief, with expectations and hope from other people, all wich will push him to be the best, and will also have the effect of making his mind believe he is talented, so he will naturally do the activity with ease. Whereas when a person is tagged as non talented in some activity since is a kid, then he well grow up with such a nonsense belief, that will make him feel he is useless, and then this will make him not trying to dl it, or even will make him try doing the activity but then blocking himself whit his own negative emotions about his skills. Or, even worse, he will see his false lack of talent as a part of his identity (and so the other people). And because this person doesn't even try, then maybe when he must perform that activity due to a test, then, after not having trained himself in the activity, will not get results and will continue tagging himself as non talented. It is a vicious circle. I deeply believe mind is the very basis of our lifes. So first look at it, try to identify your emotions and thoughts, and realize how they are strongly responsible for your life results, either good ones and bad ones. There are more things to mention about skills, but again, I think the essence of being successful IS BELIEVING YOU CAN BE. Then the other necessary things will naturally come, like hard work, or even talent... Because when you believe you can, then your mind starts to work more efficiently and will make much easier things (which you will maybe perceive as talent) .... Whereas if you do not trust in your potential, then your mind will not be at his 100% because she will unconsciously make you be coherent with your beliefs. Have a look on Polgar sisters amazing history, btw.

I think there are a lot of factors that can contribute to what we call talent. Having perfect pitch, for example. Or exceptional memory. Or perhaps being synesthetic. All of these have a strong genetic component. While you can argue about whether talent per se is genetic, some contributing factors definitely are. Also, what about savantism? Does innate talent play a role in that?

There is one phenomenally strong argument which makes it VERY likely that talent is really „only“ the ability to delay gratification.. and this is the fact that it’s proven that even the most attractive women in the world date the men with best ATTITUDE and not those with the presumably „best“ genes. In other words: a man who was at the button and worked his way to the top by overcoming obstacle after obstacle often has more attraction power than men who seem to be top all their life. It’s because there is (almost) no one who was top to begin with. And in science we are getting more and more hints that badass attitudes translate to badass genes over time and NOT the other way around.

im really sure talent exists in my opinion or from at least from what i saw from being around artists. people must practice first to get that amount of talent that puts them in the category "world class" and then they will start tweaking it and make it theirs making their own style and the natural ones, the one with better/more unique sense or taste, have the upper hand. im not sure about other stuff because it really does differ depending on what type of talent we are talking about but from what i can see my point from above really affects art.

I hate it when people tell me "you're so talented", "I'll never be as good as you because I lack talent". BULL. HECKING. SHIT. I practiced like crazy, I gave my specialty my whole life and you say it's "TALENT"? Get outta here.

Darn! My age is working against me. Am no longer a young person. Ten years to master something wouldn't give me long to enjoy it. Powerlifting is a sport you can conquer quickly if you have talent and train it correctly.

Never seen a genius sit idle.

This video is gold

Talent is an ability to learn a skill in a short period of time in a competitive environment. I believe that talent and time practicing a skill are two different things. Regardless of research was done so far. There is a huge difference between when you are 30 years old and 80 years old in achieving your goal. When you are 40 and have your talent expressed, you will have time to enjoy it. When you are 80 years old you have sweated and busted yourself twice longer than some who is 40. Trust me going through the hardship twice longer is a serious toll on your health. Michelangelo achievement in his 20's v.s Colonel Harland Sanders in his 60's (KFC founder) is a huge difference. Please note I am not saying that you should stop working hard. I am myself busting my back on overdrive. Also, having faith and ambition helps.

talent is those who make leaps and bounds when they do whatever it is they are doing.

What about running? Yeaa that ones more genes than violin playing

It does boil down to practice but not a 10,000 hour metric. Talent can be learned much faster with great teachers and/or methods. To the extent that talent exists, perhaps it exists as passion or some other drive toward mastery, if not the mastery itself. As such talent doesn't always manifest skill, when the goal changes before it is realized.

I do believe in talent. You can practice all you want, you aren’t making it to NBA, sorry to rain on your parade :) same with other “trainings”. Just the very simple task that doesn’t require talent you can succeed in by training hard. Go train and become a rocket scientist when you are far from smart with IQ of a 100, cannot ever memorize the square root of 100 but truly believe in what your video says. Let me know how it goes. Haha You are right about manual repetition that mostly has nothing to do with talent. Anyone can do it. Anything above that requires talent.

Thank you

1.Talent+study+practis=master of*.... . 2. No talent+hard study+deep practis=master of*.... .

Yeees, sure is practice, and I loved the video. But we see some natural tendences in kids, before the practice begins. We see that some, with no theory or trying before, suddenly surprise us with a skill for acting, singing, dancing, painting or whatever. In Robert Greene's book, "Mastery", he also explains about this natural tendency, and I guess, by the terms we usually refer to, it can be called talent. And we also know that there are many different forms of inteligence, in different activities and areas. But I don't really think people can achieve something relevant only by talent or intelligence, practice is always the most important

This was very interesting. I agree that there is no talent, but can you really learn anything? I think you can only learn things well that you really want to learn.

I am grateful for this video. Thank you for these facts and for the motivation

Yeah if you train hard at a certain sport you learn if you have the skills to be great. I practiced for soccer and learned I was talnted at striker. Out of instinct I would score on people through their legs or just shot without looking at the net and I would score.

Let us first define "talent" Talent: refers to one's natural aptitude. however we never actually measure our natural aptitude. we measure our artificial aptitude. Artificiall Aptitude: is simply in the simplest way, Unnatural Aptitude, one where there're other factors applied to one's aptitude, not just your natural aptitude. What affects our Artificial Aptitude? It's experience and foundation. Having played quite a lot of FPS games will make you progress fast in a new FPS game, that your progress would look abnormally fast. Having learned Arts skills makes one more creative more able to interpret, and when we write we do it better, and also progress faster. Having prior experience to a certain field, then taking a break and progress other fields on other fields that either directly or indirectly affects the certain field that you desire to progress, will make one's development faster, it's not simply progress. it's progress on-top of your skill in that field "catching-up" to your other fields of skill.

I at target for 16 years

I believe in Talent, but it's something that will only aid you early on. If there is an improvement wall, you will hit it too, albeit sonner then the majority. After that is all about hard work.

What happened to @better than yesterday??

Ok then explain this how come one of my class mates/ friends was in music class for some years and the first time I joined I can sing better then her

How does evolution know the difference between making someone "hard working" and making someone "talented".... it doesn't.

i think its all about work and passion

The evidence has shown that there is enormous variation in skill development between individuals, for the same amount/type of training.In fact, talented individuals usually attain very high levels of proficiency within 2 years of training onset.Less talented individuals are still poor performers after 10 years.There is no correlation, at all, between practice and proficiency.Given identical training regimes, 2 people with often differ in the number of hours required to reach a given milestone, by a full order of magnitude, I.e one often has to practice 10 times longer to achieve the same thing.

What about memorizing

Practice

Talented means He worked hard than you in a correct way... That's it...

Mother nature has not read the declaration of independence that all men are created equally - Will Durant

thanks alot

(Borrowed from a comment on another video) Here’s how I think of it. Everyone has a dominant and a nondominant hand. It feels natural to write with your dominant hand, you don’t have to force anything in order to do it. Of course you’re not born knowing how to write, and you have to work at it if you want to make calligraphy or just have better handwriting, but you can do it because of that natural feeling. If you try with your nondominant hand, it feels unnatural and you have to force it. To me, making yourself do something you’re not talented in is like trying to make calligraphy with your nondominant hand. For most people, it’s going to be so frustrating that they become demotivated because they’re just not getting much return no matter how hard they try. If you try to make calligraphy with your dominant hand however (i.e. do something you have a natural predisposition for), of course you have to work hard, but it feels more natural to do it and you get more of a return for the work you put in. Perhaps the difference between the violin students is that those with the highest natural ability _wanted_ to put in the extra practice because it felt natural to do so, and they got more of a return for their work.

Have you ever heard of Indian mathematician Ramanujan.... Everything about your video seems true but how will you explain his talent....there is a movie on him a man who knew infinity...I think you should see his biography

I both agree & don't agree with this video. In helping people with math homework, it's painful to teach it to some rather than others. Also sometimes I was the one who didn't get something in learning other stuff. However I have seen people learning all kinds of stuff they couldn't before perhaps not to mastery but at least to average skill level.

talent is real

"Talent is the desire to practice."..

Practice makes perfect!