Peering into the depths of the bundle in which a newborn baby is snoring blissfully, parents are already beginning to think about who their baby will become in the future, what he will be interested in. Some children become very talented with age.
Talent and giftedness
The answer to the question about the origin of talent requires a distinction between two similar concepts: "giftedness" and "talent". Giftedness can be regarded as the potential for a person to become talented. Pay attention to the phrase "potential".
This phrase says that a person has a predisposition to something, but does not mean at all that in this area he will be a genius.
But not all gifted children, having entered adulthood, show talent. In order for talent to begin to emerge, it needs an environment that stimulates this process.
Talent is defined as a certain ability, cultivated through the acquisition of skills and experience. Talent is a gift that is directly related to learning. The development of this skill is a guarantee that the talent will not be ruined, "buried in the ground."
The outstanding pianist G. Neuhaus very clearly expressed the idea of the role of the social environment in the realization of talent: "… although geniuses and talents cannot be created, it is possible to create a culture, and the wider and more democratic it is, the easier it is for talents and geniuses to grow."
The birth of talents
So, undoubtedly, talent is a gift that grows under certain conditions from giftedness. Is there a difference in the structure of the brain of ordinary and gifted people? Research in recent years has provided an answer to this question. The brain of gifted people from infancy is unevenly developed. That part of it that is responsible for, say, mathematical ability dominates over other areas. Over time, mathematical neurons begin to "exploit" neurons from neighboring zones, which, in general, have a different purpose. There are plenty of examples to support these claims. But there are also cases when people were talented not in one particular area, but in several at once. For example, Muslim Magomayev, a talented singer and musician, was also an excellent sculptor and artist. Fyodor Chaliapin himself created sketches for his stage images.
Yuri Bogatyrev was absolutely unique in terms of the spectrum of talents: a great actor, musician, artist and author of amazing cartoons.
A talented person is talented in everything. Why is nature so generous? The answer to this question is very simple. Talent is directly related to the ability to study, work. Talented people own the structure of learning, they are open to everything new.
Talent and genius are not inherited. Too often, talented parents have normal children, and vice versa. Only giftedness is transmitted genetically. To see it in a child and create conditions for the unwinding of the giftedness mechanism is already the task of the parents.
