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Never understood how some people boil down everything to raw talent that you're born with...

I mean, sure, people have different cognitive abilities, different strengths and weaknesses, etc (like a DnD Campaign, lol)

and I can understand how people can conclude that someone is a very "talented" musician or artist because humans have been around for a long time and us humans have been into music and art for a long time...

but here's the kicker, computers have been around for less than a 100 years or so,
so how the heck can someone be a "talented" computer programmer?

no, they are SKILLED because they worked their @ss off to get good.

No one fell out of their mum being able to do that.

sure, there might be some young kids who seem to have talent for music or art, but you look at their environment, they are usually surrounded by people with the same set of skills, so they're just learning from their surrounding environment, lol

sorry for the rant, I'm kinda passionate about this topic because it's kinda sad to see people give up or not even try because they think they don't have "talent"
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22Michelle · 70-79, T
The "nature v nurture" debate. And probably a bit of both, but certainly nurture plays a big part. Not only if you're brought up by parents who are maths or science, etc skilled, but how much they teach you, encourage you to develop your skills / talents. And part of that may be accepting your inate talent may be different from theirs.