12 févr. 2014

Triathlon and Talent Identification II



We have been talking about it.  Parents are asking whether talent exist, and I read a provocative article that made write again:

The 10,000hr rule and why talent and genes matter
The problem is that we've oversimplified genetics and talent. Talent has almost become a negative word. It’s often used in the context that if someone is talented they don’t work hard, as in “oh, he’s just really talented,” to explain a persons success. People want to buy completely into Gladwell and the Talent Code because it tells them that they can do anything with hard work. Sorry, you’re wrong. Hard work is a key ingredient, but it has to be combined “talent” to reach outlier status. Is the purpose of this post to discourage you from working hard? No, the idea should be that it takes hard work to reach YOUR limits. It’s impossible to know you’re ceiling, but if you work hard and don’t quiet reach you’re goal, it’s most likely because you didn’t work hard enough.

Are we training intelligently instead of training just training hard?  This should be the question.  Moving in the water is a matter of coordinating the whole body, every part of the body.  For the sake of explaining it, when swimming, leaving the leg or the shoulder in the water while moving forward creates a huge amount of resistance which requires smart training to overcome it.  It is not a matter of how hard we train but how intelligently we train.  How much we can learn to feel the movement that creates resistance and feel the movement to overcome it.  Gennadi Tourestki speaks of 10,000 hours in the water to DISCOVER TALENT.  If we spend 10,000 hours in the water, chances are that we created talent if we have a good education to do things the best of our educational ability (assuming that our education is the best).
Albert Einsten would say that education is what limits his learning process.
 What is what you look for when looking for talent?  Education, the rest will come if you work hard.

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