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Re:Why Talent Is Overrated by xiaoma on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @09:06AM (#339970)
As my old basketball coach liked to say, "You can't teach tall."

We each have different innate limits that no level of "deliberate practice" can overcome. Yes, the power of sheer will can do amazing things, but our genetics still limit us. Lion DNA differs from human DNA by less than 10%, but no amount of training could ever allow a human to close the gap created by genetics and leap or run as quickly as a lion.

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