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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: HerbJunkette]
    #19127747 - 11/12/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

My problem is I am too goddamn talented.  I excel at everything I try, but I enjoy a challenge and thus find nothing satisfying,  so I end up getting bored and quitting before I actually master any specific skill.  I am a renaissance man, skilled at everything, master of nothing.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: Schmendrick] * 1
    #19127778 - 11/12/13 05:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Schmendrick said:
My problem is I am too goddamn talented.  I excel at everything I try, but I enjoy a challenge and thus find nothing satisfying,  so I end up getting bored and quitting before I actually master any specific skill.



:lolsy:

You keep telling yourself that.  The hard part of getting really good at anything is mastering it.  The perseverance and dedication required is ridiculous.  Anyone can get good pretty good at something, it's taking it the whole way that's incredibly difficult.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #19127826 - 11/12/13 06:02 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Schmendrick said:
My problem is I am too goddamn talented.  I excel at everything I try, but I enjoy a challenge and thus find nothing satisfying,  so I end up getting bored and quitting before I actually master any specific skill.



:lolsy:

You keep telling yourself that.  The hard part of getting really good at anything is mastering it.  The perseverance and dedication required is ridiculous.  Anyone can get good pretty good at something, it's taking it the whole way that's incredibly difficult.




I don't need to tell myself anything.  I am already wealthy, self employed and doing just fine thanks to my propensity for learning and doing things right.  It's not my problem that you aren't as talented as I am, but trust me when I say being over-talented can be a burden... it makes choosing a long term path in life difficult.  If you excel at just one thing that you enjoy doing, then your way forward is pretty obvious.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: Patlal]
    #19127849 - 11/12/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

My only real talent is being extremely stubborn.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: nicechrisman]
    #19127861 - 11/12/13 06:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

talent is intuition. intuition is not expertise. practiced intuition is


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: JesusIsLord]
    #19127880 - 11/12/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Then you will love me cause I suck at everything!


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: nicechrisman]
    #19127901 - 11/12/13 06:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

More natural ability imo. I wanted to get into skateboarding but i waited until I was 18. No matter how hard I tried, how much effort, blood and sweat i put into it, I just couldn't get very good. I've been skateboarding for like 4 years and can barely land a kickflip.

Then I watch a little 7 year old almost get them on lock his first week of trying them. AWESOME! Life isn't fair :mad:


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: LysergicX7] * 1
    #19127917 - 11/12/13 06:20 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

^ keep trying though. Skateboarding is one of those really intense skills where the way to get better is not always so obvious, but you will probably break through eventually. Don't be disheartened by the young prodigies, instead learn from them. I can't skate a lick but that's just my impression of it.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: g00ru]
    #19127955 - 11/12/13 06:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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^ keep trying though. Skateboarding is one of those really intense skills where the way to get better is not always so obvious, but you will probably break through eventually. Don't be disheartened by the young prodigies, instead learn from them. I can't skate a lick but that's just my impression of it.




Alternately, you could do like my stepson did - try to go down a ramp that's too big for your skillset while trying to show off for a girl, fly off your board backwards, crack your head on the concrete cuz you are too retarded to wear a helmet and end up spending a few days in a coma... or worse.

After all, 'Bam Margera doesn't wear one, are you calling him stupid, dad?' 

If he really doesn't wear one then yes, yes I am.  And even more so since he knows he is a role model for kids.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: HerbJunkette]
    #19128134 - 11/12/13 07:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Just make a talent in taking drugs.


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Re: I hate gifted people with incredible talents [Re: Fcl] * 2
    #19128316 - 11/12/13 07:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Gifted and talented he says :rolleyes:

It's all skill-based, you get out as much as you put in. If you happen to find a nice teacher, group or context to learn in, something that matches your current skill and interest level, you'll develop. If you get born in Mongolia, you'll be a pretty fine horseback rider. If not, you're a bit fucked.

I have some youtube vids with drawing tutorials, where I just posted the crash course that our drawing teacher put us through. I explained everything from the very start, like literally for morons. The same way our teacher explained it to us :lol:

Once my non-artsy programmer friend saw it, and REALLY saw that drawing is as A-B-C as coding or as driving a car, he got his gf's easel and charcoal sticks and paper, and started drawing daily, like a madman. I was starting to get worried, because in 2-3 weeks he got to about the level that we were at in 3 weeks or more, and I figured if he can keep this up (he has way more discipline than I do) he'll overtake my ass in 2 years and then where would I be? :sad:

Absolutely it's all skill-based, you just have to find a way to practice properly, and that's not that easy to do.

Also, there's this bitch right here:



A proper teacher and class context, a group, will easily help you get over the plateau, because you're expected to show up and put in the hours on all days, not just the awesome ones. By yourself it's easy to get discourage at either the plateau or the apparent loss of skill after each new rise.

I can relate to the OP, I see more awesome painters than myself all the time, makes me want to have a chip in my brain that would bypass all the practice, teach me pro painting in a second, but yeah, there is no chip, no talent, no magic formula. You put in the time and get some ability, or you sit on the couch flip channels and smoke dope and have nothing to show for it.


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