Maybe I am just being futile because I don't like the empirical data and decided to ignore it. <br><br>But what I do know is that if I deliberately practice anything, I will be better at it eventually. Thinking that you don't have the right genes won't do anything good for you.<br><br>Don't use this podcast as an excuse to not improve yourself.,(reply>), @Peter Lund ok... I might have misunderstood his definition of intelligence. The way that you've putted seems reasonable, I wouldn't disagree.,(reply>), Haier would not disagree. The thing is, however, that practice in one area doesn’t really transfer to other areas. That is, you still need to practice them about as much as if you hadn’t practice in the first area. There is some transfer between similar types of things, of course, but intelligence really isn’t trainable.