Intelligence: Genetic? Practice? Or both?

Apostolos Lampiris
1 min readJan 25, 2016

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There is always a big discussion matter among teachers about their students ability in school subjects. We often observe students having totally different grades among subjects. For example, there are students who have exceptional grades in Maths, but the barely fail in Literature. This is what we call as talent or flair. But what this means really? Is this phrase correct or we should stop talking about talent? Are we born with talent or are we getting better as we are working hard? Everyone could think a boy or a girl who is very good at something (school, sports, hobbies). We may know persons who from their early years were very good than others at something. How did they do that? Did their parents demise them their abilities? Could we have an advantage to other people if our parents were really good at something? Today, scientists didn’t agree with this aspect. Scientists believe that, as we grow up, we develop skills, which make us getting good at something. According to them, our early success makes us try harder and getting even better. They believe that after birth each incident or experience a person has (see, hear, smell), will lead him to create his own character. The character includes the things someone likes to do and wants to be better at.

But could we really abandon the factor of genetic? There is nothing we take with us from our parents? Is this the end of the word “talent”?

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