Speaker 1
Is that a really, is that too basic of a question or? Yeah, I think it's a really, really great and valid question because I think there is this colloquial way that we talk about talent. Someone's super talented in music or they're a, they're talented at sports and it means, I think, something that's more akin to a natural gift that without given the same kind of opportunities that they're just able to do so much more or they just have these kind of physical features that seems like they're just God given. But I think talent and like a, this kind of more philosophical definition, I think it's like talent is this kind of a genetic property that a person has in order to take a set of inputs and generate like a more valuable output. And someone that is more talented is able to take the same set of inputs and the outputs will be more useful or more valuable than someone with less talent. And so talent is kind of this, the, the kind of the engine, yeah, that translates inputs into outputs that that's kind of at the very fundamental level, how I would just define talent. And of course there's all these different things in which I was like, okay, so, so, someone may be talented in different things, right? Someone may be really talented at taking this set of inputs and transforming it into kind of an output, but the another person might be much better at taking another set of inputs. And so you can start talking about talent as it relates to inputs, outputs, what they're working on, what domain they're, you know, an expert in. And so kind of it gets really complicated once you talk about all the different parameters and factors that you can enter into the equation. But talent development, you know, is therefore kind of this exercise when you talk, think about it very abstractly, like, how can you get a person to be able to, you know, create more output given the same inputs or be able to take in more types of inputs, right? So for example, someone who's given like a coding question, if you teach them something, they're able to actually take in more inputs, like they're able to solve more types of problems, for example. Or if you teach them a new, teach someone a new language, they're able to access a lot more resources, you know, from kind of the corpus of a language, that's another whole set of inputs that they're able to take on.