Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radiohead Space and to Friday morning.

So a few days back I was reading an article and it was an article written about the famous

Olympian and Olympian that there's one countless gold medals across a number of Olympic games

and as I was reading this one thing in particular really stood out and that was that this person

said that they had no natural ability for what they did and I thought about that and

that I think most of us we look at people we admire in life we look at whether it's

in sport or art or music or cooking or whatever it might be.

We assumed that yeah okay they've had some lessons they've learned they practice a lot

but they probably have some kind of natural ability and it was hard to believe you know it

was a cyclist by the way it was Chris Hoy who people on the other side of the pond are

more likely to recognize that name but those were really interesting and he said that you

know it was more through his life that he had to uncover it and find it and I thought I

was a really interesting idea for all of us I'm not suggesting that there's an Olympian

in all of us necessarily but the idea that we might have to discover and uncover our talent

rather than necessarily be predisposed to a particular talent.

Still like as life goes on we become perhaps not always but maybe it's just because of

the way our lives are as well they tend to be busier and there's more responsibility

and everything else but we tend to stick to the things that we know we tend to stick

to the things that we like doing we kind of yeah and say shut down but we maybe don't

try as many new things as we might when we're younger.

Even that idea of learning and curiosity is perhaps a little stronger a little more

alive and because of that perhaps we don't necessarily end up pursuing the things that

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