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Is Talent a Myth?

  • Charles McCrone
  • 10 Dec, 2017
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All you have to do is scan YouTube comments and you see the ubiquitous “Wow, that girl is so talented.” What’s wrong with that comment? Talent is invisible. There’s no way to tell from a musical end product how much the performer’s natural talent has contributed to that product. What the commentator is really saying 

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