Do we as humans need to be taught everything?

Question

Well I'll start in saying I have very low confidence in my abilities. There are things I want to accomplish like playing piano better and getting good at art. However I have this feeling that if I don't have the talent, I shouldn't bother. I have a talent in acting, but I feel if I never had that talent, I shouldn't learn because it would be an illusion. For all I know I learned it unconsciously from all the t,v, I watched or something. I have to live with my family who have a buch of problems. My dad had problems with drinking and still does unfortunately. I've just suffered from low confidence my entire life. Did all the really good artists learn from someone else or what? Is it possible to go through life without being taught anything? I know sumb question but I need to know.

Answer 1

think about beethoven or mozart. i do not think they could be taught what they excelled in. some people are just born with type of ability. some people are good at everything they try and others haven't found what they're good at. it's hard to say what gives us our talent because some people can practice over and over and over at something they really enjoy but never really become good at it while others may just have a natural ability to be good at something they just learned how to do.... i wish i knew what i was good at.....

Answer 2

if we have to be taught everything, how did we learn the things that need to be taught in the first place?

example: music. did the first musician in the world have to be taught how to play music? who would teach him such a thing? he obviously had to develop music on his own.

Answer 3

most of us need to be taught the extra things in life - like piano-playing. i think, though, that everyone has the instinct of doing at least one particular thing. like i love to write, and it's very easy for me to think of a story, and then write it all down in an interesting and creative way. though everybody else goes, "how do you do it?!" we humans have the instinct and common sense to know how to survive - but most other things have to be taught.

Answer 4

in a nut shell no, communication and life are important but we are of a form that we don't have to be taught how to lie and cheat, fight for power and greed, have jealous hearts, all this things come from within our genes that is pass on from our fallen nature.... have you ever notice that there are things that you are good at and no one taught you.. because you were wired for something greater... all of us have this great desire and knowledge of things that are not taught. Some have even said that they have had pass lives, as to the knowledge of certain crafts; but in all we are already made to be useful in some grand plan we just don't ever get it done or sometime we accomplish it before we die.

Answer 5

no. that's what we have our minds for.Ü

Answer 6

it's not a dumb question. it is the ine that psychologists have been debating for centuries. the age old nature v. nuture debate. I could bore you with my long-winded explanation, but just go google "nature v. nuture." I bet it'll come up on Wikipedia or something like that.

The television is pure evil in my book. It ruins your subconscious, faking it to believe that things you saw on television are something you want, cos you do not remember watching the ad. google subliminal messaging.

Regarding the drinking, it is supremely nurture, he learned it. that is why it runs in families. child grows up with alcoholism, finds it to be an easy way out, learns it.

And as for artists, in my opinion, it's nature. they taught themselves.

If you want to be able to do something, try doing it your way. don't try to play the guitar like Kurt Cobain, cos he is the best at how he plays it. You can start out learning his songs, techniques, and whatnot, but you will never be him, and will only dissappoint yourself, striving to be something you aren't. Just play how you like and it'll be perfect.

good artists NEVER learn from someone else. Jackson Pollock dod not splatter paint because he saw that someone else did it. He was the first, and people hated him for it. People never stick out if they try to be just like someone else.

Ha ha. So much for a short answer!

Anywho, I hope that you feel better and just know that if you work at your art and piano and make it your own, it'll come to you better than learning from someone!

postscript: take my advice cos I'm going through the some of the same messy junk you are. Just hang in there. Teenagedom is almost gone.

Answer 7

Not really, just to may be perfect it.

All you need is to figure out what you want in life and point out which strategies will lead you towards achieving your goal.

When you want to learn something, your will get to learn it, without being taugh by some one but by your self.But if it is supposed to be taught, then there will come  away in which this will happen without you putting much effort.Simply because you want to achieve your goal.

Take for example, when you have  a talent in acting, go try it out, try to do your best, if it is that you need some training, some one will notice you are take  or offer that training.

Its not always good to keep stuck in out past or what our parents have failed to do or provide for us. You don't necessarily need to carry a placard that your father is one who drinks a lot.

Tell people more about your self and that is most important- your future.

If you have realized, our history normally comes out when you have defeated the odds of life hence people want to know exactly who you where before now.

So concentrate on what you want mostly.

Good luck dear.

Answer 8

Basically, instinct is not learned, like impulse.  All other behavior are learned, consciously or unconsciously.  Yes, including low confidence is learned.

Trust yourself, know yourself and try to achieve as much as you can by learning, formal or informal.

Most of our behavior are not taught, but by our observations from our social environment or from books, Internet, TV etc. Follow other people's way is a faster track than everything is taught by yourself.  Just like if you can, get a paid job, then buy your food will be easier to make your own stove, plant your own wheat and bake your own bread.  Do you know what I meant ?

When you are living in this 21 century, learned what you can have from your environment, learned from it, follow the rules that fits your style and ability.  Find some ways to develop yourself for the future.  Do not think this year but what will  happen 10 years later or 20 years later if you follow the path of someone.

Being taught is good.  No one is born to be knowledgeable.  We are accumulate our knowledge, wealth, friends along our living...

Good luck !

Answer 9

i agree 100% with brandon....

He is very right...

Answer 10

No. We must LEARN everything. No one taught Isaac Newton about gravity; he learned it then taught US.

One person at least must learn a thing without being taught, because there is no one before the first who knows it.

So you take what have been taught, and from that you learn other things on your own. But one man had to learn to manage fire; one man had to figure out the wheel; one man had to invent the sharpened-stone-on-a-long-stick we call a spear. No one taught them this.

No one taught the algorithm used by the Google Guys. They thought of it themselves and were told it was impossible. They were able to do that because they LEARNED what others before them had learned.

But obviously they learned something in there that no one had learned before.

As far as your piano talent goes, it may simply take practice, practice, practice, until something "clicks" in your mind that says "OH!"

Do you think Einstein was born with "E=MCsquared" in his head? Do you know how many physics students still do not really understand its implications and might never?

It doesn't mean they can't change the world--with what they actually do learn.

Whatever you learn about the piano--if you practice and get to that "OH!" moment, will be enough to keep you going further. I'm no Einstein in philosophy. I got to the top of the list because I had several of those "OH!" moments--because I would not give up. Believe me, I'm no genius and other philosophers can talk circles around me. I have to read things several times, cross reference with other sources, write things in long hand, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, until I finally get to where I want to be.

You can do it with the piano.