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Old 07-31-2008, 04:35 PM   #13 (permalink)
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To answer you directly, no, you can't change your talents. You can change how they manifest, and your skills and knowledge, too, but your talents are mostly locked in from the age of 16,
What is the evidence for that claim?
Is there some peer reviewed research that uses the definition of talent that you use (strengths) that came to that conclusion?
I don't think that there is research out there that can substantiate such a claim at the moment. We don't understand the brain good enough to distinguish things that can be changed via neuroplasticity from things that don't.

Did someone run a lodscore analysis for the genetic components of the strengths in that framework?
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