Musicians need to be talented to be successful.

Does "talented" refer to the talents people born with or learned?

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__lua

28 Nov 2020

English (US)
Portuguese (Portugal)

being ''talented'' doesn't really specify if it's what people are born with or what people learn, just that they have to be really good at it

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ruby110630

28 Nov 2020

Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

ruby110630

28 Nov 2020

Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

@__lua Thank you!

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OwLeho

28 Nov 2020

English (US)

In English, it doesn't really distinguish between them very well, so it can mean both or either. Culturally, these days a lot of people get confused about where talent comes from or how people get talent to be good at something. It is actually a common mistake people make, to assume that talent has to be inborn, so they forget to work hard. They give up if they are not good at it right away, instead of working hard. Or if they are born with some talent, a lot of people take it for granted instead of training that talent to be even better. They forget how much you can get from learning and working hard, and so they treat born talent as if it was magic that just appears from nowhere. It is kind of sad.

So words like 'talent' will be used for both kinds (inborn and learned). It will also be used whenever someone just seems to be good at something, without knowing/caring how they got so good at doing this.

This means that sometimes people will talk about 'talent' as if it is a mysterious superpower that just happens to some really lucky people when they are born. Which is silly. But people will also use 'talent' to describe someone who trained hard for years to gain their ability. The word 'talent' just doesn't specify the origin of their ability, it only says that they are really good at doing something.

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ruby110630

28 Nov 2020

Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

@OwLeho Thank you very much! The explanation is very detailed and help me a lot.

I agree that some people envy the so-called "talented" people and consider talent as magical power. They ignore the successful people's effort. And some people fail although they have good potential to do something, because they don't work hard. The most terrible(I don't know which word is suitable to use but I think you know what I mean) thing is that the people who are more excellent than you work harder than you.

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