Chapter8 What about natural talent?

1.unsettled

The issue had been rather unsettled.

釋義：something such as a problem or argument that is unsettled has not been dealt with successfully
例：Some important issues remained unsettled after the peace talks.
造句：If you suspend the unsettled issues, it will cause more problems in the end.

2.interplay

The result from the chess study provide a crucial insight into the interplay between "talent" and practice in the development of various skill.

釋義：the way in which two people or things affect each other:搭配interplay of例：the interplay of ideas
? ? 搭配interplay between例： the interplay between military and civilian populations

造句：The interplay between property price and economy development is hard to tell.

3.confer

A high score doesn't confer any additional benefit.

釋義： confer a title/degree/honour etc to officially give someone a title etc, especially as a reward for something they have achieved 同義：? bestow搭配confer a title/degree/honour etc on/upon
例：An honorary degree was conferred on him by the University.造句：His brave behaviour conferred hounour to him.

4.dud[d?d]

But in reality, no one has figured out how to look at college football players and figure out which will be the best and which will be the duds.

釋義：something that is useless, especially because it does not work correctly:

例：Several of the fireworks were duds.

可以用the best and the duds來表示有好有壞的對(duì)比關(guān)系。

造句：In schools,? whether a student is the best or the duds, is usually decideded only on scores.

其他表達(dá)

微弱的優(yōu)勢(shì)slight advantage
.比... 好/差 除了用比較級(jí)表示，還可以用outweigh或/dwarf代替

Thoughts
今天的內(nèi)容說的是innate characteristic和self-fulfilling prophecy的作用。智商在剛開始學(xué)習(xí)一項(xiàng)技能時(shí)確實(shí)可以發(fā)揮作用，高智商的人能更快速的入門，且成績(jī)更好。但是這種優(yōu)勢(shì)會(huì)隨著其他人的刻苦練習(xí)而漸漸消失。這就是古人總結(jié)的“勤能補(bǔ)拙”

IQ was linked with greater chess skill in young players but not in adult tournament players and not in masters and grandmasters.

另外，那些一開始就有優(yōu)勢(shì)的人也許從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)看也未必是件好事。因?yàn)樗赡苡X得自己很輕松就能到達(dá)別人苦練才能達(dá)到的效果，所以，也許智商高，基因好，但沒有正確的認(rèn)知，也并不是一件好事吧。

有關(guān)自我實(shí)現(xiàn)預(yù)言，也許我們小時(shí)候因?yàn)樗瞬唤?jīng)意的一句：‘你沒有數(shù)學(xué)天分?！鴱拇撕ε聰?shù)學(xué)。也可能因?yàn)槟骋淮斡⒄Z(yǔ)考的特別好，而覺得自己有天分，從此英語(yǔ)成績(jī)一直拔尖。仔細(xì)回想一下，其實(shí)正是因?yàn)閷?duì)自我的評(píng)價(jià)，我們才覺得自己能或者不能做一件事情。如果對(duì)自己有信心，就會(huì)花更多的時(shí)間去練習(xí)，最后獲得好的成績(jī)。所以，不要活在別人的評(píng)價(jià)里，要活在自我的認(rèn)知力。