>>13607842>then why are other users saying that just anybody can achieve a high level of skill with enough practice? Are they coping or is this study bullshit?It's a cope. It is an appealing cope as you can see
>>13608576 because you tell yourself you can be top scientist, athlete or artist if you just try hard enough. But it is very harmful notion in the long run.
Imagine if teachers fully embraced this blank slatist dogma that every child has the same innate abilities and does equally well in school if they just try hard enough. Well, if some children did worse than others the teachers would either punish them or give them more homework or something else to have the same academic achievements as their classmates. None of it would work of course because the genetic reality is as it is.
Or another example. Let's say the entire political and academic establishment believes that all races are cognitively equal and will have the same life outcomes. But since they do not, the same establishments is telling them that they are oppressed. That the only reason they don't have as high incomes or as high education levels as this other group is because that group is being mean to them and oppressing them with their racism. This narratives creates unnecessary resentment in a society which multiracial states are susceptible enough on their own.
Or say you truly believe you can become anything you want with enough practice so you keep practicing but you are achieving only mediocre results because you don't have the right genes for it. You become frustrated with yourself thinking there is something wrong with you. All because someone on the internet told you something you wanted to believe.
I really wish people would acknowledge that humans are genetically different with different innate abilities. To stop believing the lie that we are all equal and can achieve anything we want, however harsh that may sound. Nothing good can come out of it.
