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Dec. 17th, 2019 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
contrarianarchonI saw another post on tumblr talking about how talent is a small factor in artistic skill and how you can get really good at anything if you practise enough and just ...
Doesn't anyone else think of talent as the thing that lets you practice enough? Like, talent isn't a trait which says "Gain +2 to checks with X" it's the combination of numinous factors that make practicing a thing feel good and rewarding and something you can spend a lot of your free time on even when there is an internet connection *right there*. So saying "Oh yeah, just spend hundreds or thousands of hours doing a thing and you'll be good at it" is true but also there are more psychological gating factors since if the first ten or hundred hours feel like pulling teeth (And IDK if you often get through that but certainly don't expect you to try if it's optional).
Is this model non-obvious to non-me people? Is it just wildly incongruous with what everyone else thinks of as talent?
Doesn't anyone else think of talent as the thing that lets you practice enough? Like, talent isn't a trait which says "Gain +2 to checks with X" it's the combination of numinous factors that make practicing a thing feel good and rewarding and something you can spend a lot of your free time on even when there is an internet connection *right there*. So saying "Oh yeah, just spend hundreds or thousands of hours doing a thing and you'll be good at it" is true but also there are more psychological gating factors since if the first ten or hundred hours feel like pulling teeth (And IDK if you often get through that but certainly don't expect you to try if it's optional).
Is this model non-obvious to non-me people? Is it just wildly incongruous with what everyone else thinks of as talent?
