That we are not blank slates at the time of birth.
Have you even read it?
make that “a well read high school student”.
Thank you, I already feel as welcome to a “millenia old nature versus nurture debate” as anyone else alive today could.
A single book, yes, but the result of multitudes of studies and research based on modern, advanced scientific methods.
Exactly my point - becoming wonderfully good at something through practice (nurturing) is easier if your genes (nature) favored it.
I see now I did not make my stance clear in my first post. I am a firm believer in hardwork, believe that neuroplasticity is a wonderful thing and that the human mind is capable of achieving anything that it is motivated enough to. However, good genes never hurt and help the process of achieving mastery and the claim that the human mind is an outright blank slate is not correct.