You have summarised the relationship between talents and other factors very well. I will add two quotes. Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” I agree with the first part more than the second. Richie Benaud, former Australian cricket captain (more than slightly tongue-in-cheek): “Captaincy is 90% luck and 10% skill. But don’t try it without that 10%.”
Excellent as ever Ant. I love the notion of the “skillset of being a talent-spotter”. Nicely phrased.
I think you bringing intelligence and personality into the mix is spot on, as is your acknowledging different form of intelligence. David Beckham’s kineto-spatial intelligence as a playmaker is something I could never dream of matching. What a talent! What skill!
I always found the parable of the talents something of a nose-rubbing exercise: my sympathies are entirely with the poor old chap who’s only granted one. I’d have hidden it too, in case the master, on some Trumpian whim, decided he wasn’t even going to leave me that meagre allocation!
You have summarised the relationship between talents and other factors very well. I will add two quotes. Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” I agree with the first part more than the second. Richie Benaud, former Australian cricket captain (more than slightly tongue-in-cheek): “Captaincy is 90% luck and 10% skill. But don’t try it without that 10%.”
Excellent as ever Ant. I love the notion of the “skillset of being a talent-spotter”. Nicely phrased.
I think you bringing intelligence and personality into the mix is spot on, as is your acknowledging different form of intelligence. David Beckham’s kineto-spatial intelligence as a playmaker is something I could never dream of matching. What a talent! What skill!
I always found the parable of the talents something of a nose-rubbing exercise: my sympathies are entirely with the poor old chap who’s only granted one. I’d have hidden it too, in case the master, on some Trumpian whim, decided he wasn’t even going to leave me that meagre allocation!