The most important thing is to run through, not how fast you start to run

So far, how many times have you said to yourself, "Oh, I don't think I have the talent, let's just forget about it" in something you were interested in learning?

　　This phrase is often used as a stop sign to announce the complete failure of an endeavor, and also when you are ready to close a door and continue on the old path without much frustration but without seeing new scenery.

　　Is talent that important? Do you overestimate the impact of talent?

　　I interviewed a cellist who was called a musical prodigy at the age of four and who grew up to be quite successful in music, and he denied at first that he was a genius. He said he was often asked in interviews in the United States: How much of his success was talent? "I think less than 20 percent ...... But of that 20 percent, my mother, who has been pushing me to learn the piano and not letting me go out to play since I was a kid, probably contributed more than 15 percent!"

　　Talent does vary from person to person, but we often overestimate its impact. Looking back, I've said "if you don't have talent, forget it" quite a few times. To be honest, most of them were because I was lazy and didn't want to persevere, so I often quietly backed off before I learned enough to prove my talent.

　　How many things that could change the direction of our lives or add to the joy of life have been killed for the reason that "the more we waste, the more we fear"? Hearing his words, I realized something. It is not only about learning things, but also about love. The more you neglect him, the more you are afraid to see him; the more you feel sorry for him, you can't help but feel more sorry for him.

　　Many people, like me, have a tendency to end up in a tiger's head. It's not that you don't want to work hard, just not persevere. Sometimes it is the beginning of excessive effort, soon after the elastic fatigue. Or when you start out, you are interested, but after you encounter a little difficulty, you tell yourself, "I don't have the talent, forget it," and then you fish for three days and then sunbathe for two days.

　　For example, when I was studying Japanese in college, I worked harder than any of my classmates at the beginning, and in addition to taking classes, I also took tutorials and bought all kinds of textbooks. My roommate woke up every morning and read for half an hour, so I vowed to work harder than her and read for an hour and a half longer than her, so that I would always be better than her.

　　However, her "half an hour a day" lasted for four years until she was admitted to study abroad in Japan on a publicly funded basis, while my two-hour-a-day effort was constantly interrupted by "excursions, barbecues, falling in love and dozing off".

　　In the future, I tried to do my best several times, even carrying a Japanese reading book with me every day, but it all died in the wind when I couldn't do anything but try, and then I told myself, "Forget it, I don't think I have the talent to learn Japanese. Now, I am still at the level of the Daiichi language.

　　The more often "forget it," the more likely we are to get nowhere. Michael Howe, a British psychology professor who specializes in prodigies and geniuses, has come to the interesting conclusion that geniuses are thought to be naturally occurring, fluid and unhindered talents, but in fact, geniuses need to spend at least ten years learning their special skills, with no exceptions. To become an expert, one needs to have a stubborn personality and the ability to persevere. Professionals in every line of work bet a lot of effort to develop their professional talents.