Can talent be learned? (Lesson411)

There’s no denying that very few people really have the true talent. But I think the most people in the world are ordinary people. They just have some skill, like a foreign language, or baseball. There are so-called talent can be learned. As the author says, the TALENT not only the surface, but also it’s involve the interior. It’s include mental, pyhsical and emotional strategies. And language learning consists of a whole range of beliefs.

In fact, I think the author’s viewpoint just like internal martial of the Chinese Kungfu. The reason why Chinese Kungfu is famous in the world , becuase of master’s internal martial, not only the beautiful action. Many people think the Chinese Kungfu is very difficult to get it, they even think it’s a unique skill of the Chinese. Actually, the Kungfu action could be learned very quickly. However, internal skills need to be learned year and year. Until internal skills was became a instict in the end.

Just like the author’s the baseball hitter example in the book. The young man just visualised a spot on the ball at first that his coach taught him. At that time, this action like the Kungfu’s martial moves. Then it’s change into his internal martial step by step through his a hundred time hitting actions. Finally he succeed in becoming a star baseball hitter. Begin in the action, End in the unconcious instict.

Back to my learning swimming experience. At first, my coach taught me some standard action, and I practiced these actions more and more times. When I got the swimming actions, he taught me how to breathe in the water. It’s most imprtant to swimmer. After all, the gestures can not look good, the life must be there. So I Practiced to change my breath in water many times again. It was really tiring to me. Until I’m skilled in breathing in water, I really learned to swim. In the process, the swimming actions like the kungfu gesture, and the breath action like the internal martial. The real copying is combining actions and internal martial. We should comprehend the internal mental when we learning the surface action. Finally turn them into our own something.