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Re:Practice Doesn't Make Perfect by cko on Saturday October 01, 2016 @08:19AM (#12617558)
I like this view, that there are many subtle things that one person got right and another didn't - couldn't you say that person A was just naturally (genetically advantaged) to discovering those things in their field of mastery?

I would also add to that curiosity, which leads to desire, which makes mastery that much easier.

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Re:Practice Doesn't Make Perfect by RodericDay on Saturday October 01, 2016 @10:40AM (#12618040)
You could settle for a genetics explanation, but why would you?

Other hypotheses are much more easily testable, and certainly more inspiring to the newcomer, and haven't been scientifically exhausted yet.

If everyone just said "it's probably not in my genes" they wouldn't even try, disregarding tons of historical factors that may have stopped their ancestors from creating a record.

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