>>12244424This is demonstrably false by the existence of actual savants. If this guy thinks Ramanujan figured out that 1729 was the smallest number that was expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways at the drop of a hat while dying of dysentery because he practiced real hard, he's as stupid as his comments about inborn talent.
That being said, inborn talent isn't necessary to contribute great things to society. This mooks got it completely backwards - people believe there's no such thing as inborn talent so they don't have to face the reality of never being able to match the once-in-a-generation true geniuses, and only stop bothering to perpetuate this feel-good bullshit once they've grown enough to understand that not being the best at something is never a reason to not do something.
