Opher Brayer’s Blog

What would you say if I were to prove to you that real talent is not magic, but method?
The only people who can proclaim that “talent is inborn” are geneticians who will affect genetic mapping to the infant that was just born. Do you know of any such examination? Imagine the baby was just born, the mother lies exhausted and overjoyed in her hospital bed, whilst the child is sent for genetic testing to find out whether he is: “talented”.
Luckily we know not of such an examination.

My modest research started with a question that I asked my self: what do all these people who are designated by the system as being “talented” have in common? I noticed that in many cases a brilliant student, who impressed us teachers and drew our admiration with his “talent”, was in fact […]

Is our personal and professional development a foreknown event formed by genes we inherited from our forefathers? How depressing to think that we would never be able to achieve more than allotted to us so mysteriously and in such a �beggarly� fashion by elements over which we have no control.