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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Natural Talents; a sport psychologist's point of view

One of the most common things parents say to us is “my son / daughter is such a natural talent but he / she wastes it”. When you look closer at the natural talent concept it’s really just the old nature vs. nurture debate in disguise. As sport psychologists we don’t think there is any point in debating it any longer due to two facts. Fact 1; there always has been and always will be genetic variation between people. Fact 2; you can’t change these genetic components so talking (thinking) about them seems as silly as shouting at the traffic. The parts that can be improved on are all learned (non genetic) so it makes sense to focus all your attention on this slice of the performance pie. Cheers, GJM

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Labels: effort, genetic, learned, nature, nurture, and talent