The talent

The world, let's be honest, is full of ordinary people, if not outright mediocre ones.
Finding someone with talent in a field — whether it be music, literature, critical thinking, art, science, or sports — is to be considered a rare event.
Many people, however, make a very strange deduction. Although they accept without batting an eye the total absence of talent in the majority of people, from these special cases — those with single-sector talent — they instead expect all-around talent. That is, someone who sings well is expected to have great communication skills. A good writer is expected to have political vision. An athlete is expected to have moral integrity. And so on.
Yet it is a simple matter of probability: if it is rare, as it is, to find a talented person in one field, think about how difficult it must be to find one with multi-sector talent!
Someone might be thinking of Leonardo da Vinci as a counterexample. Fair enough, da Vinci was an incredible figure with eclectic talent. But he lived five centuries ago. And he is still talked about as a once-in-a-lifetime case!
If anything, his is an example that proves precisely the point of view just expressed.

This post was machine-translated from Italian.