Yesterday I finally discovered something that I have no talent in doing whatsoever. That statement sounds arrogant so let me clarify. I believe that the idea of talent is a useful way of measuring how good you are at a certain activity. Pretty much everyone has talent at pretty much everything, however we only perceive someone as being talented (and therefore good) if their level of talent is beyond a certain point. If you were to give talent a percentage value, a very talented person would be something like 80-90% good at something, a very lowly talented person would only be 10% good at something. Pretty much everyone has some talent at everything even if that talent is as low as 5%. Everyone can improve on how talented they are at something as long as they have something to start from. So only in rare cases are you absolutely talentless at something and only in those rare cases can you never ever improve.
In my case, I've discovered I lack talent at baton twirling. And this is the bona-fide complete and utter zero-percent lack of talent. Yesterday, someone attempted to teach me how to do the most simplest thing possible with a baton. The conversation went like this:
"Hold the baton in the middle.
"No, not there, the middle.
"No. THE MIDDLE
"Look, how hard is it to hold the baton in the middle?
"Okay, whatever. Just try spinning the bottom end round in a circle.
"That's the top.
"That's not a circle
"That's still the top end.
"That's still not a circle.
"Okay, try spinning the top end instead.
"That's the bottom."
Yes he has a zero percent lack of talent. He is especially short of talent in recognising double negatives.
I have very little talent when it comes to spotting double negatives.
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Edmund
You sure about that statement? zero-percent lack? that seems to go against the rest of the article