{"id":14082,"date":"2015-03-03T23:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T23:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lets-say-that-talent-is-real\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T23:06:35","slug":"lets-say-that-talent-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lets-say-that-talent-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s say that talent is real."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.tumblr.com\/post\/112603385327\/okay-lets-say-that-talent-is-real-we-must\">terribleminds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say that talent is real.<\/p>\n<p>We must also assume then that talent will mean nothing without work. It is a dead, inert thing unless you do something with it. It\u2019s still a thing that must be seized, must be trained, and you still have to level up your game every chance you get. And given that talent is a subjective idea, and one that is unproven, and one that is not measurable, maybe it\u2019s better instead to assume that it isn\u2019t real at all. Because cleaving to talent \u2014 believing it\u2019s real and that we must possess it \u2014 does you no favors. It only creates a false sense of what must be done or what should be possessed. It\u2019s as invisible as a ghost, as insubstantial as a a breeze, and as noxious as a gassy dog in a small car. If you assume that work is needed to make something of your talent, then worry only about that.<\/p>\n<p>Worry only about the work.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the only part of this that you control. You control the time. You control you effort. You can measure how much you\u2019re putting into something \u2014 and, eventually, you can measure how much you get out of it. You can control how much space you give it. You can authorize its importance and your devotion to it.<\/p>\n<p>Reject the caste that talent implies.<\/p>\n<p>Talent, if it exists, does not matter one sticky whit. Because you cannot control it.<\/p>\n<p>The work, though? The work matters.<\/p>\n<p>So do the work. Control what you can control. And fuck talent.<\/p>\n<p>(from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/03\/02\/the-toxicity-of-talent-or-did-you-roll-a-natural-20-at-birth\/\">http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/03\/02\/the-toxicity-of-talent-or-did-you-roll-a-natural-20-at-birth\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>h\/t <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mzm7rgDMinfLopwGcdx_eyg\">kadrey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>terribleminds: \u2026 Okay. Let\u2019s say that talent is real. We must also assume then that talent will mean nothing without work. It is a dead, inert thing unless you do something with it. It\u2019s still a thing that must be seized, must be trained, and you still have to level up your game every chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-14082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-reminder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3F8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}