In my previous articles on the talent I have revealed that Although talent can be an innate quality, we can also learn to develop it. How? Through intense practice of a certain skill.
Intense practice is built on a paradox: Striving in certain ways to achieve specific goals (allowing yourself to make mistakes and make a fool of yourself) makes you smarter. Or, to put it another way, those experiences in which you are forced to slow down, make mistakes, and make amends end up becoming more agile without you even realizing it.
Effortless performance is desirable; however, it is a horrible way to learn.
Talent requires effort
Bjork, a professor of psychology at the University of California, has spent most of his life researching questions of memory and learning. He is a smiling and cheerful scholar, willing to analyze from the curves of memory impairment to how Shaquille O'Neal, the NBA star famous for the mistakes he makes when taking free throws, should take them from strange distances: 5 or 6 meters, instead of the regulatory 4,5 meters.
"Things that appear to be obstacles become advisable in the long run. An authentic encounter, even if it lasts only a few seconds, is much more profitable than several hundred observations ”(Bjork).
I leave you with a video of Brazilian soccer players. They are the practical example of how develop talent through intense practice: