2019: The year to avoid the “Talent Trap”

“Max” was the new guy in karate class. He’d been there about two weeks the first time we fought.  He was a white belt. I was a green belt. And…he was so strong, so fast, so aggressive that I could barely hold him off.  What was clear was that in a few months I wouldn’t be able to. I knew that the first time I fought him.  He was “a natural”.  He had “talent.”  I felt sick, anxious.  It was unfair.  What the hell was the point in trying, when there were guys like Max who could just walk off th...