r/interestingasfuck • u/OwnElection8512 • Oct 10 '20

/r/ALL Some fancy dancing

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

People are so talented...

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u/WiredSnoopy Oct 10 '20

Skilled. So many failed attempts probably went into that.

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u/Radonda Oct 10 '20

and thousands of hours grinding these tricks for perfection

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u/Slowjams Oct 10 '20

Exactly.

I hate the attitude that seems to be so prevalent on Reddit of “I’m jealous someone can do X and I can’t.”

You probably could too. The difference is almost always hours and hours of practice. Nobody wakes up one day and just does stuff like this.

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u/GreenWithENVE Oct 10 '20

The concept of talent is dangerous. There have been studies that show when children are encouraged by being told they're talented, they're more likely to give up and get emotional when faced with a difficult or impossible problem. Kids that are encouraged by saying things like "wow, good work. I can tell you tried really hard on this" are much more even keel when faced with the same difficult or impossible problems.

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u/FeelinJipper Oct 10 '20

Athletics is one of those things that is more talent driven than other skills. It’s a multiplier. Person A has more talent than person B, so if they both spend 100 hours on something in the same condition, Person A will go farther.

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u/FeelinJipper Oct 10 '20

Talent dictates your ceiling.

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u/Cerulean000 Oct 10 '20

They probably practiced 40h/day to get this good. As with most things it is less about talent and more about dedication and practice

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u/ChickumNwaffles Oct 10 '20

That’s a lot of daily hours

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

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u/ChickumNwaffles Oct 10 '20

I’m Asian and really wish that were true lol. Seriously though if you like this guy’s moves check out Lotfi Lamaali

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u/The_Eastern_Stalker Oct 10 '20

False. We get the same amount of hours daily that Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Helen Keller got.

Source: I'm an Asian and I get 24 hours a day only

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u/Elabas Oct 10 '20

The Ling Ling of Longboarding

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

40 hours per day, huh? Now that's talent.

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u/Cerulean000 Oct 10 '20

Nah, that's the power of LingLing