Sports: Aliens would find the concept of professional sports quite baffling. They might be able to grasp the concept that people play games together because it's fun, it's a bonding experience, and it helps keep us healthy, but the idea that we have people in our society who get paid an obscene amount of money to throw an object back and forth between each other while wearing spandex, and tens of thousands of people causing traffic jams to come in and scream at them would probably be a bit mu...
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I often wonder about talent.
There is definitely something to the idea that to become genuinely great, you need to put in a lot of hard work, but there's still that raw, innate talent that helps one get there, that inexplicable quality that makes a certain skill just come naturally, that internal wiring that makes one person learning a new skill pick it up almost effortlessly while his classmate seems to work twice as hard for half the results.

Some things just are.
That's okay.

But it leads me ...
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