Yes natural talent does exist.
All peoples brains are "wired" differently, thats why we all are, well, different. Thats why some people are better suited to perform certain tasks while being inferior at otheres compared to someone else.
However, you can come a long way with practice, though you might have to practice more than someone who has a natural talent for whatever it might be.
I play the piano, and when I started it was clear I wasn't particularly talented, I had a decent sense of rythm, allright, but I never really had the right "feel" if you know what I mean, and the dexterity of my fingers was lacking. Ten years later however, I have come quite far. I'm still not on the level of the real "naturals", who have learned faster than I do, and it still doesn't sound as good as when they do it. But I still am pleased because I've gotten a heck of a lot better than I thought I would.
So I think you can make up for a lot by practicing, although you may not reach the level of someone who was born better equipped to perform a certain task.
Your brain does adapt if you practice for long enough, as new connections are built up inside it. My teacher told me that brain scannings had shown older students, who had been practicing longer, to use more parts of their brain than newer students did. Because these are built up over time.
This is how I think it is, it might not be entirely true, since I don't know much about how the human brain works.
All peoples brains are "wired" differently, thats why we all are, well, different. Thats why some people are better suited to perform certain tasks while being inferior at otheres compared to someone else.
However, you can come a long way with practice, though you might have to practice more than someone who has a natural talent for whatever it might be.
I play the piano, and when I started it was clear I wasn't particularly talented, I had a decent sense of rythm, allright, but I never really had the right "feel" if you know what I mean, and the dexterity of my fingers was lacking. Ten years later however, I have come quite far. I'm still not on the level of the real "naturals", who have learned faster than I do, and it still doesn't sound as good as when they do it. But I still am pleased because I've gotten a heck of a lot better than I thought I would.
So I think you can make up for a lot by practicing, although you may not reach the level of someone who was born better equipped to perform a certain task.
Your brain does adapt if you practice for long enough, as new connections are built up inside it. My teacher told me that brain scannings had shown older students, who had been practicing longer, to use more parts of their brain than newer students did. Because these are built up over time.
This is how I think it is, it might not be entirely true, since I don't know much about how the human brain works.
