If you concentrate on one thing?
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that's not strictly true.
Genes give you a base but there are so many things that affect you afterwards (including things that only affect you because of specific genes you have, but someone who also had those genes might have never encountered and so be very different).
for example various hormone levels and combinations in the womb are thought to alter brain the brain development of the child.
I'm guessing you haven't been to a school in the past 10+ years?
Completely depends on yourself as an individual, I've always had a very keen interest in music, I can play a few, read music, constantly have my mp3 player with me so if I was to do a degree in something relating to that I'd give it my best shot and most likley have a good chance of succeeding.
However I enjoy maths as well, yet I'm terrible at Sudoku and can't concentrate for too long in some aspects, so if I was to further my education in that, even though I'd have an interest, I don't think I could take it far.
Of course there is, people have a natural affinity for all sorts of things including those things you mention. You can learn anything to some degree or another, however without a natural affinity or the required ability you will never truly succeed at everything regardless of how much work you put in.
Sometimes if you can't sing, you just can't sing and no matter how many lessons you have you still won't be able to sing.
Pretty much. But what's changed?
Wow, seriously? The human brain is clearly and demonstrably the most varied part of our bodies and fundamentally decides if we are good at music, maths, people skills (?) or any number of little things.
Look at school and the maths problems you'd scratch your head at for hours while the maths nerds at the back would giggle and say how easy it was (it was, for them - they hit their wall eventually though).
How about stroke victims (or other brain damage) which changes their personality completely - going from accountants to artists overnight?
Then there's physical ability - sadly we are not all born equal, we are flawed in so many ways and these will hold many people back from sporting excellence. How many promising young footballers have been written off because they simply can't stay free of injuries?
Still don't get it? Ask ten of your mates if they can see magic eye pictures, the ones who can't have different abilities to the ones who can.
everything you said isn't really true any more.
you don't learn by rote and aren't plied with any rhetoric.
It may be that i focused on the scientific subjects where you were strongly encouraged to find the answer yourself not simply learn it all of by heart, and also taught how to find it they gave you the tools to learn for yourself rather than just a from memory collection of answers for a test.
Maybe i just had good teachers though.
Also our school was built around the 40-50s times as a hospital with no bars on the windows
edit: English was **** though our teachers were terrible we learnt to answer questions and annoyingly not the basis of language as i would have liked (as you can see my sentence structure is terrible as we were never really taught about it
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I think that has more to do with it. I focused on English and enjoyed it. Despite my English teachers reputation as a battle axe. Everyone will have a subject that they excel in which makes doing it enjoyable. Maths I'm awful at. Sitting in maths the only thing I was good at was counting the minutes down on the clock on the wall.
Learning by rote and governmental approved rhetoric is still how it's done though. It's not until further education beyond secondary that people enjoy the true freedom of learning for the sake of learning.
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Fair enough. Yes, I 'forgot' about environmental factors.
But my point is that genes determine so much about us that it's ridiculous to suggest that natural ability doesn't exist.
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There is a genetic basis for many advantages, and often these advantages can be applied to specific events and lead to mastery of the action with repeating and training.
Yes.
The difficulty (IMO) is in finding out what that is, mostly through trying different things out and changing one's mind.
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I can tell you they do. I worked in a school for quite a few years not that long ago and I can tell you they teach exactly what the kids need to know to pass exams. During my time there it only got worse right down to focusing on past papers rather than actual learning. This is probably why GCSE results are so high (that and they *have* got easier)
What's worse than the above is how competition and failure are no longer taught/encouraged. Thus leads to generations of kids that have not be taught how to learn only memorise and generations of kids that think they can do whatever they wish and will never fail.
Then the real world bites them. Hard.
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It would depend how popular it was and how much uuuuppphhhhh you have with people. You have to be strict with your own rules and not get side tracked if you no what I mean.
You have to be creative and do something that catches people eye and be self developed as much as possible.
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Do you mean A Levels?
Nope because they are as bad as GCSEs. I'm talking about work & life as an adult in general. Goddess help them if they're all in tears and suicidal because they didn't get 3 A* grades in ****ing General Studies because I have no idea how they expect the put up with the ****storm that is life.
Even 10+ years ago when I was at secondary school, the focus was getting you through GCSE. The careers advice classes I barely remember as they were 30 minutes long and so few.