<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ff60a51-131d-4306-857a-18aa3460b50e/2C166F5B-FD49-40AC-BC7B-5BF84625341D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200806/innate-talent-0" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200806/innate-talent-0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.psychologytoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200806/innate-talent-0"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.psychologytoday.com/img/F025C3BE-CBAB-4750-B643-6C2A64322E7F" alt="Harry Gorodetzer" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200806/innate-talent-0"><P>As for my Philadelphia Orchestra <A title="Psychology Today looks at Dreams" class="glossify_term" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/dreaming">dreams</A>, things fared better for me. I started to take <A target="_blank" href="http://www.cello.org/" class="ext">cello</A><SPAN class="ext"></SPAN> lessons with my Grandfather, Harry Gorodetzer, who was associate principle cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 50 years (the record). After a month of daily lessons with gramps, I had joined my high school orchestra. I even beat the lowest cellist at the first seating auditions, an individual who had been playing for at least 5 years.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200806/innate-talent-0"><P>While I put in the same amount of intense practice in both basketball and cello, I struggled to stand out in basketball (don't get me wrong, I wasn't bad!), and learned cello with an ease that shocked everyone around me, including myself.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200806/innate-talent-0"><P>From these two experiences, I became convinced that people really do have certain proclivities, and while deliberate practice certainly matters, genes facilitate the rate of learning to a considerable degree.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2C166F5B-FD49-40AC-BC7B-5BF84625341D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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