Talent is what you are born with, the ability to get that bat hit the ball in time, the ability to turn around that arm and see the ball reach with some pace down the 22 yards. The ability to middle it and the ability to turn it. Talent is bestowed.
Technique is what your hardwork builds onto your talent. The long hours spent as a kid with your unrelenting coach. Hours and hours of hitting a ball hanging in a sock right in the middle. Hours of putting that front foot forward and keeping that head steady. Recursive strides to the pitch to get that high arm action, the numerous efforts to roll that wrist over - to land the ball on the proverbial penny.
Experience is knowing what to do when. Experience is also telling the rookies what to do when. Experience is the instinct that life gives you after years of run-ins
Temperament is the ability of doing what needs to be done under pressure. Over and over again. And again.
Flair is the ability to make people forgive you for the lack of all the above.
Form is the resultant effectiveness when either all the above desert you or all the above align with you.
Luck is what precludes any of the above.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The components
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