The Importance of Recognizing Talent

Jay Parini: It's a wonderful thing to help your children explore what their potential talents are. But we have to keep in mind there's eight billion people on this planet. The chance of you being the best at anything better than eight billion other people is really remote. He says even something that seems like just raw talent takes a lot of work, and it can be achieved with 10,000 hours' worth of hard work.Parini: Are you ever going to get good at science or fiction? I'm getting worse as the years go by statistically.