A Parent Asked Me Today Whether Their Child Was ‘Actually Talented’ or Just ‘Putting in the Hours,’ and I Genuinely Do Not Think That Question Means What They Think It Means
A Parent Asked Me Today Whether Their Child Was ‘Actually Talented’ or Just ‘Putting in the Hours,’ and I Genuinely Do Not Think That Question Means What They Think It Means – Eleven years of teaching has taught me that this specific question, however well-intentioned, usually gets the whole relationship between talent and effort exactly backwards.