Question:“On having no talent”
On having no talent
Talent is not being good at the start. It is wanting to continue even while being bad. Few are good from the start, and fewer continue.
Do the thing badly five times this week. Do not try to do it well; only count. Talent begins around the fifth time, where the shame starts to shrink.
Demosthenes stammered. He practiced speeches with pebbles in his mouth against the sound of the waves, and became the voice Athens listened to longest.