Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Neil Cowmeadow discusses Talent, is it a myth or is it a method. Consider how harnessing the idea of talent can help you to grow your tutoring business and increase your student base.

It doesn’t matter if you believe in talent or not, you can use it to your advantage. If the natural talent is there, acknowledge it and amplify it. But if it isn’t, erode the myth, minimise it and destroy it. As tutors, you can use the concept, to better direct, better encourage and better teach.

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Talent is considered to be a natural gift, the idea that talented people are more gifted than others. But consider this; Everyone comes into this world on a blank slate, we’re all the same and everyone who is excellent at something was once, never even doing it. It’s the missing of the process that makes talent look like magic.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

We’re all born helpless, but something happens between birth and excellence, It’s curiosity, fascination, engagement, exploration, encouragement and direction. Talent is just a place marker word for socialisation, fascination, ongoing play and improvement. There’s time spent doing the thing, that’s what really counts.

Student One (Believes in natural talent)

Emphasise the talent myth, remind them of the background factors, but state that talent alone is not enough. It needs care and nurturing, it needs focus. Remind them of stories of wasted talent and acknowledge their view of the work and attempt to amplify it.

Student Two (Disbelief in natural talent)

Acknowledge that they have no natural talent and remind them that in the absence of talent they can go along way with hard work and a good teacher. Consider implementing a system to help them learn and remind them that everyone is capable, everyone started somewhere. You will minimise the talent myth incrementally.

BEST MOMENTS

“If natural talent is more than what most people get, it’s an anomaly”

“Talent is shorthand in a way with constant learning, it’s not magic, it’s consistent”

“Every master was once a disaster”

“Every winner was once a beginner”

“Every hero was once a zero”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Neil Cowmeadow - Weird Things Guitarists Do

www.Neilcowmeadow.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!