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Why does it lead you to believe that? If they have talented parents, wouldn't the parents raise them in a way to encourage their talents to blossom?

Would be interesting to see if the children of talented parents that are put up for adoption and raised by average parents are as successful. Or vice versa, talented parents raising children of average parents.

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I guess you're right. I am obviously not that smart... Haha..

But to your point, Steve Jobs is an example of that. He had blue collar adoptive parents, but his birth parents were PhD level people.

I am not gonna put my foot in my mouth again and say this is proof of anything, but it is interesting to me.

It's the nature vs nurture thing. It mostly boils down to 'a bit of both' and if you are really lucky in either department then you can still very well manage to succeed.

Just be born rich or well connected and you will have no need for silly things like talent!

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