There is a claim that inborn talents are a must to excel in sports or music?
Another view is that training and/or regular practice is enough to make one so?
Discuss these two views and put in your opinion.

There is always difference of opinion on what it takes to be successful in sports or music: talents or training! Though a generalization is not possible, it can be proved that talented ones excel much better and faster than trained ones. In my opinion, talent is a great force to reckon with.

Let me begin with a small question. Why aren’t there as many sportsmen and music maestros as there are pilots and programmers? The answer is, the former ones need talents and practice and the latter ones need training and practice. If we take a cursory look at the history of sports and music we can find innumerable cases to prove this. Those who have made a mark in these fields have had their share of talent inherited from their lineages. Very few get born to excel in sports and music, and great many get born to be trained and thus excelling.

However, there is room for success through training and practice. Practice is said to be able to make man perfect. This is possible to a limited extent because mastering a skill and making a niche in that field is one thing and pursuing a calling so naturally and excelling in the same field is something else. The latter does not happen in every other one’s life, but the former is a matter of choice, a matter of practice and effort to be precise.

An objective look at the views discussed may reveal that in-born talents are so decisive for one to be sports stars and music maestros. I am of the opinion that the role of training and practice for both the groups cannot be ruled out. The talented or the “getting trained”, it is practice that makes them perfect.

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