Searching for knowledge can only be hindering depending on how you apply what you learn, imo.

Most concrete sources like written documents or videos hit a dead end. They really only give you the information about the experience of one person or groups of people when it comes to something.

If I learn something, write it down, and give it away, I kind of think I am giving away the experience, not the talent. If someone takes what i made and wrote down and considers it the end-all-be-all to the subject, then yeah, maybe their search for knowledge does hinder them.

I think everyone suffers from that a little at some point. They think they find the best way to do something and really just keep doing it like that. Its a slow way to kill art... By just never taking what you want to do any further than someone else did. Talent needs creativity to survive, imo.

Some things are art and sciences at the same time, though. Like growing plants. There are right and wrong ways to go about that. Some ways exist in documentation that are just simply perfect. But, in playing an instrument, sometimes you can just totally fuck it all up and find something great in it. Talent is kinda fucked up that way... Sometimes you think you've got the best way to go about thinking about how things should be done based on how you think you're talented one way... Turns out that shit doesn't always drive on the same highway. I've had to learn a couple things like that.

I like to just cummulate everything I can about everything I do. Sometimes, you can add one thing to an already solid recipe and do things better than someone else. One of the key tricks to this, I think, is knowing as much as you can and geting as much experience with everything you know. Sometimes, you'll know a trick the other guy didn't use. I guess all you can call my version talent is knowledge, really?
Stellar Reviewed by Stellar on . Talent? Does it come naturally? Does talent truly exist? I've been thinking about talent and what it actually means, not justified by the dictionary, but is there even such a thing? Can't we all learn and do whatever we want if we apply ourselves enough? Do skills come easier to some people due to natural ability or simply the way they percieve things? Is it a thought out process? Is it instinct and reflexes? Is it practice and dedication? Rating: 5