Heard this on the radio this morning: Two Guys on Your Head: Praise People who believe in talent hit a ceiling and give up, people who believe in skill keep on truckin!
None, I spent most of my life wanting to design/program videogames and then when I went to Uni and actually started doing it, I realised that I hated it so I started to learn about 3D character production instead. Never had an art background before that. I don't believe in natural talent, however I do believe that people…
I'd say any success I've had has been 75% hard work and grit, and 25% luck. And I don't even like to believe in luck but more and more I'm starting to believe it's a thing. I was lucky to apply to Sony Bend at the right time. I was lucky that the applicant pool at WB Games Turbine wasn't filed with rockstars when I applied…
Well I believe talent is simply a will to work hard, obsessively even, on developing a particular skill. If you define it like that then I'd say 90% If, on the other hand, you see it as a fru fru notion of a special gift from the heavens then definitely 0%... It's all hard work, sweat and tears with an occasional…
i believe in mind over matter to certain extent so i agree with you that we should not worry about talent or genetics, work hard no matter what. what bothers me is when people out right deny the existence of natural talent(or its role in their success) like many are doing here. that seems absurd to say the least. i mean…
So talent is sort of a wishy-washy concept that isn't exactly easy to define. On the other hand, the ability to learn new skills and retain knowledge certainly does vary from person to person, and even through the course of a single person's life, as a teenager your brain is a sponge and operating at maximum efficiency,…
Same here really, I do believe that some people are better at than some people at learning certain things, a knack or a certain natural aptitude. Some people have just an easier time understanding aesthetics or wrap their mind around technical things. As for myself, I've always considered myself to be pretty smart and…
you can disagree all you like but creativity never entered into the hard work the hard work was getting to know understand and sync with the technical systems, replicating a sword, or gun or level from concept or RL isn't being especially creative, I think most people are creative they just filter out their own ideas as…
Generally speaking yes, but I agree with Robeomega to a degree because the flipside is people who have zero natural talent, and who just can't get there even though they struggle and try. Most of you are 3d artists, which tends to be more forgiving in terms of talent because a lot of the work is about knowing procedure…
I believe (personally) that talent is a thing. That people have a natural aptitude toward certain skillsets. There are talented mathematicians, who can look at a board full of numbers and their brain "just does it" for them and the answers come naturally or easily. There are talented musicians who can pick up an instrument…