Gifted people in sports and music Being a good sports person or musician is very difficult and in most cases requires years of training. Some people believe that good sports person and musicians are born with these talents, while others believe that these skills can be learnt. A reason to support the vision that people can born with specific talents is that some children show in early ages more advanced skills than their peers. They also can learn and develop faster than other children. It's quite common to see these gifted children in TV shows or in internet videos. Nevertheless, we can't deny that even these children need to work hard to achieve a high quality performance in sports or music. Sports, just as music, requires a lot of practice in order to develop skills, so it's natural to believe that the harder you work on it, the best will be your results. So, through this point of view, anyone can be taught to become a high-performance athlete or a spectacular musician. These two views, however, simplify too much the situation. It's impossible to argue that anyone can be good in sports or in music, because you have to take into account features like the child's personality and temperament. Some children don't have the discipline needed to learn sports or music and it can be very difficult to develop this skill. Others just will find it boring and uninteresting. Similarly, when you talk about being good in sports and music, it's impossible to rely only on natural talents. Even these gifted children that we see in TV shows need to work hard to improve, because sports and music are based in techniques that must be learnt, no one born with that technical knowledge.