Talent is often described as "a special natural ability or aptitude". In more plain language, talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied. Thus, if you are instinctively inquisitive, that is a talent. If you are competitive, that is a talent. If you are responsible, that is a talent.
Why are your talents enduring and unique? your recurring patterns are created by the connections in your brain; and beyond a certain age you are not going to be able to stitch to a completely new design -- your talents are enduring.
How brain works?
Your brain gets very big quickly and then shrinks into adulthood. As your brain becomes smaller and smaller, you become smarter. Why does the odd thing happen? It is because of "synapse", interconnection between two brain cells(neurons) that enable cells to communicate with one another. Behavior depends on the formation of appropriate interconnections among neurons in the brain. Your synapses create your talents.
Neurons are created very fast after you are conceived and the number reaches its peak when you are born and you have about that many up until late middle age. And shortly before your birth, synapse is formed when interconnection is made by each neuron to each other. At the age of three, 15000 connections for each of your hundred billion neurons are made. That is a very huge number of threads. Then most these threads are neglected and disrepaired. Between age of 3 and 15, you lose billions of these carefully forged synaptic connections; you can rebuild them. But "less is more", your smartness and your effectiveness depend on how well you capitalize on your strongest connections. Nature forces you to shut down billions of connections precisely so that you can be freed up to exploit the ones remaining. Otherwise, there would be too much noises. Your genetic inheritance and early childhood experiences assist you in finding some connections smoother and easier to use than others. Meanwhile, ignored and unused connections wither away. No signal at call can be heard. For example, if you end up with a T1 line for competitiveness, you will use them to compare your performance with others. If you wind up with a T1 line for inquisitiveness, you are the kind of person who can't help asking why.
So the truth is our sense isn't common at all. Each of us perceives the world uniquely. And the difference between people have nothing to do with race or sex or age;they are a function of each person's network of mental connection.
Why are your talents so important to strength building?
By defining your talents as your strongest synaptic connections, we can now see why it is impossible why it is impossible to build a strength without underlying talent.
Your performance depends on you use your strongest T1 links in daily decision makings. By natural you will use your those T1 links instantaneously with least resistance. You can learn skills for the purpose of damage control, not for development. Skill won't elevate you to excellence.
Learning through repetition may result in a few new connections, it will not help you create more superfast T1 lines. Nature has developed three ways for you to learn as an adult: continue to strengthen your existing synaptic connections, keep loosing more of your extraneous connections, or develop a few more synaptic connections. The least efficient of the three is the last because your body has to expend relatively large amounts of energy creating the biological infrastructure to create these new connections.
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