Each of us has special abilities and talents. someone understands Mathematics well and another person is a good painter. But what is the reason that makes these differences? Do we have Different Neurons from others in our brain? Or we have developed or improved parts in it?
I did not come from an intellectual family, in fact they were very much the reverse. So, Renzo, probably not that simple. What I do remember doing is spending exhaustive time in my town's central library.
The brain seems malleable, not fixed by genes, etc. We can effectively build (to some extent) ourselves.
I think they come from many years and years of evolution of our ancestors and that we inherited, sometimes I heard that if you dedicate 500 hours to do something specific at the end of those 500 hours you can consider yourself an expert or at least achieve a perfection
Either from nature or gradually constructed over time from the experience.
There is a famous saying of Thomas Edison "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration" https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/genius-is-one-percent-perspiration-ninety-nine-percent-perspiration.html . By the way, as an inventor, Thomas Edison made 10,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 10,000 times?" he famously answered, "I have not failed; I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work".
Dear Aliasghar Khayati , natural talents are abilities that are part of who you are – they may be artistic talents, intelligence, physical strength, organizing ability and so on.
I call them "gifts" from the Creator. But hard work is also needed. These gifts and our hard work will hopefully help us earn our life and solve human problems. For example in the public health and medecine ; how many smart people are earning their living by saving lives and making other people healthier?
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