Nature or Nurture with Eli Manning and Dr. Angela Duckworth

[@carissafoote2671]

Angela was a very delightful person to listen to. I feel like her expertise is quite valuable, especially in times like these.

[@IgniteIntellect]

Chuck is actually funny. I don't care if he's not athlete or a doctor. It's hard to be funny and thats an actual skill

[@questionabletoast9346]

"Whatever you do, don't do this." That's pretty much my motto.

[@SavageDarknessGames]

Mine is: “do as I say, not as I do”

[@cloudrouju526]

Nature makes you good; nurture makes you exceptional; both make you great.

[@AusCosmo]

Damn the thumbnails have levelled up looking very nice

[@StarTalk]

Round of applause for our editing team! 👏

[@paigeninmer7401]

Interesting perspective using the Mannings as a way to try to explain nature vs nurture! Very applicable and easy to understand!

[@ShauriePvs]

Did we really get back to back long videos or is this supposed to be coming next week and got mistakenly uploaded.. anyways we are enjoying

[@jordan-ofall-trades]

Ready to be blessed

[@questionabletoast9346]

My hand eye coordination was pretty much all I remember being exceptional when I was a kid. I have excellent spatial awareness. Never did anything with it though. I can beat the original Mario Bros. with my toes.

[@steve-o6413]

I was also gifted with this ability as kid I'd play halfback find the hole and with a blink of a eye be halfway down field. Important in Designing products in manufacturing and engineering. With good hand eye coordination instead of operating a video game you could be operating a crane or some type of heavy equipment especially good for truck drivers and ship captains. Also good for artists and architectural designers the job listings are endless it would be a shame to waste it...

[@GG256_]

@@steve-o6413 Ah, I do so miss my hand eye coordination. I'm 26 and my right eye has suffered a huge vision loss in the past few years. Around middle age when macular degeneration kicks in, I'll definitely need a glasses, contacts, or surgery. As a musician I understand the impact my hand eye coordination had on my craft, but thankfully now it's all muscle memory. My point is, practice things while your brain and bodies are malleable kids! No way could I interpret the keys or strings visually AND physically at my level if I had just began at my age.

[@Dabber234]

@@GG256_ definitely something to think about

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

My hand eye coordination came with cutting fine kindling for the fire! … ya never wanna chop your fingers and thumb off with a horrible hatchet that will never have any remorse! Lol

[@frankie342]

Eli Manning always looks like he’s about to break out in laughter! Is it the way he holds his mouth?! Also I’m high af🍃😂 love the show btw!

[@j03Biz]

I think its more like he's about to spit out his mouth guard any moment.

[@raynic1173]

Hard work beats talent everytime. Except when talent works hard.

[@hamiljohn]

Angela is really a great guest!

[@kenqb5450]

Todd Marinovich, LA Raiders QB, is the prime example of parents pushing so hard that the child "melted down" and did not reach the expectations of the parents or others.

[@joehntr3]

My son loved to play Football and Baseball throughout school. You always hear that parents live vicariously through their children. My daughters asked and were almost to the point of demanding that they be allowed to take part in beauty pageants to the point of winning so much that other children thought we were paying the judges. Actually it was all their looks and grace that had them winning My oldest daughter took 6th place in a pageant that covered the entire state. I played male fast pitch Softball and co-ed slow pitch. After the pageants and football (where they were cheer leaders for their brothers team. They both wanted to play Softball so my oldest daughter became a slow pitch pitcher and her sister was catcher. My son played slow pitch and was center fielder. All of their sports activities were due to their wanting to play I never even asked them if that was what they wanted they told me that it was what they wanted.

[@ritiksahu5310]

Just explore this cannel . After last watching cosoms in 2014. This channel is goldmine

[@coffinsmokej7408]

Chuck makes the best co-host

[@GrantAtMMT]

This ends up being an excellent motivational video.

[@dunderwood4444]

STAR TALK has officially STEPPED there game up, #LordNice #Gary.O #Dr.Tyson #NewYorkGiantsEliManning #Angela.D Bless up from Brooklyn "This is STAR TALK " Outstanding episode as anticipated Well done Dr. Tyson, Lord Nice and behind the scenes cast and crew

[@legorobogames1805]

Hi mega Neil deGrasse Tyson

[@JhanSolo332]

Loving seeing the Eli media train lately

[@SimplyJoshinYa]

Loving what you do is probably the most important part. If you don’t have a genuine curiosity to see how far you can go with practice then I don’t think it matters if your naturally talented or inclined at something. You could be talented at something but without the love for it you natural talent will only take you so far.

[@anomalyempire]

Neil is the Man! Mad props to Chuck Nice too!

[@matthewclark5864]

“You call it nurturing, I call it neutering” Major Payne

[@giantopinionsports6119]

😂😂😂

[@GrantAtMMT]

43:07 - the fellow sports guy is quite right about why Eli didn't want to talk about playing his brother. Peyton and Eli faced off against each other three times and Eli lost all three.

[@lesmoore6912]

A bit disingenuous as Peyton's team beating Eli's team isn't so much about Peyton being better than Eli as it is about the relative strength of the teams. Might be different one on one.

[@jamesporter6288]

@@lesmoore6912 trust me, that is exactly why Eli doesn't want to talk about it. He HATES the fact that he never beat Peyton

[@lesmoore6912]

@@jamesporter6288 I get, and agree with you. Just trying to give a little context.

[@ericolens3]

@@lesmoore6912 Nice name. Less, more

[@lesmoore6912]

@@ericolens3 You are the first to mention it (and as far as I know the first to get it)!

[@pyro30055]

thanks Neil now im enrolled in a bs for physics 😆

[@KM-04]

The real question here is that of free will. Both nature and nurture are aspects we can't control. However, there is a question of whether one aspect of nurture is actually under our control and that's the choice to choose otherwise. Every aspect of what we call nurture is either innate or arbitrary in origin. Choice is the ultimate question!

[@bobman929]

But are naturally good at choosing or was it taught.

[@jfrankki]

Love your hat and always love your shows.. Chuck, you rule too!

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Even sometimes you against the world , just don’t give up don’t ever ever give up

[@MemyBurosi]

I'm only here for Neil DeGrasse Tyson and new information

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Thank you have a wonderful day

[@mikeriley2642]

How can we see the Eli Manning interview? That would be great

[@pseudonayme7717]

It's the Angela Duckworth show😄She's lovely of course. I would be really interested to know how she came to have such a name though. I only ask this because it was a very common name I'm sure in England in about 1940/55ish, so how an Asian American lady came to have such a name I do wonder🙂 Awesome show guys, thoroughly enjoyed it👌👍

[@Hokie94CPA]

Interesting Michael Jordan was mentioned in this conversation without remarking on the fact he was cut from his high school's JV basketball team. I think that begs the question regarding practice vs. natural ability. Jordan definitely had to work at it.

[@scottty795]

For Jordan his peak was higher and also he did indeed have the right environment which included several factors like his early jealousy of his brother and wanting approval from his dad along with putting in more work

[@raynic1173]

Just because he got cut from the JV team doesn't mean he didn't have the natural talent. Remember the first two steps the she described. Early play and then training. JV is that point where generally start that disciplined training. So is your not willing to get to it and work hard, you won't make it. So he eventually realised he had to put in the work, phase two has been activated...the rest is history ...

[@linyenchin6773]

@@raynic1173 he had the genetic potential but lacked the exp, that's why he had to lvl grind after rejection for being too low level in high school. Everyone has genetic potential but not everyone lvls up to max level pf that potential. Fewer transmute at max lvl to fenerate grester genetic potential as they begin to lvl up beyond the scope of inherited genetics... that's what DBZ taught me... Goku had inferior gene potential in contrast to Vegeta who was born at twice the genetic potential of his own father...who was also named Vegeta... like their planet... Keep in mind that fiction is a reflection of introspection into actual biological foundation. The psyche is the material upon which we expound and extrapolate material bounds of possibility. *Are you still poo-pin?*

[@raynic1173]

@@linyenchin6773 everyone does NOT have the genetic potential.

[@bartier861]

We’re literally learning this in class

[@wayando]

All things being constant, the hard worker wins ... But when a talented person works hard, its game over. We all have certain genetic variation that makes us better and a handful of things, or a combination of things ... Some times the combination of attributes is so spot on like winning a lottery ticket. The real question is whether a particular combination of traits can be permanently and consistently found within one family ... And always he absent in other family linages.

[@erdemmemisyazici3950]

Dr. Tyson, you sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

[@fixbertha]

The brain may be plastic to a certain extent, but there are definitely "inborn" talents. By the time I was a teenager I could disassemble a car engine and I would remember where every individual nut, bolt, washer, etc., went. Not just the correct size but the actual part. My dad was always amazed. I eventually became a mechanical engineer specializing in rotating equipment. I can picture clearly to this day in my mind how complex machines that I worked on 40 years ago came apart and went together. It's nothing I ever practiced, it's just there. There are many things my mind is very poor at in spite of trying to improve those aspects (like remembering names). It's important to recognize one's talents and one's limitations. You can have fun with things you may not be good at (an example for me, playing pool) but you should probably avoid those things as careers.

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Love is the reason y I AM STILL HERE,

[@ZeroKami86]

With the mental stuff I'm surprised no one brought up the yips, which has been a known mental block/debilitation since the late 70s - if not longer. Or even PTSD/ASD.

[@marcussherlock6318]

Or the twisties, that affect gymnasts and prevents them from landing safely on their feet out of an aerial spin.

[@puchipachi5534]

When we talk about intellectual activity, I think it mostly comes down to nurture.

[@scottty795]

What do you mean by intellectual activity?

[@MattIsntYoung]

@@scottty795 saying he wasn't nurtured....... JUST KIDDING but I saw the joke hahaha

[@scottty795]

@@MattIsntYoung Huh? Sorry you are making no sense. I wasn't joking... I simply asked you to clarify your statement

[@tdusz2076]

Intellectual strength

[@scottty795]

@@tdusz2076 thanks, ill like to hear it from the actual guy who said it

[@murasaki848]

🎶"Eli's coming, hide your heart, girl..."🎶

[@erikhendrickson59]

Another FANTASTIC episode, as usual!

[@karenacevedo9853]

I got a whole new respect for Eli…thank you…

[@DPRyan-vd5pp]

That’s how I was with golf. I picked up a 7 iron at 12 years old and was shooting in the 80’s from the white tees within a year and then moved back to the blue tees at 14 years old and shot around 80-85 …where I’m still at today at 48 years old! Lol

[@jamir0n]

great episode. glad to find out a real scientist as Dr. Angela taking control of character building sphere vs. the many charlatans filling the void and poisoning the well for all of us "self-help" hungry plebs. on a contingent note, I'd love to see you host a discussion with Dr. Thomas Holms about his latest research in neuro-psychology about the origin of consciousness. Thank you Neil for your great effort and kind soul.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Fascinating, and something I'd love to hear more about. Thank you all!

[@jamescpotter]

Drummer Buddy Rich's central philosophy was that no matter what befalls, you're obligated to plow forth and get the job done. Death, he declared, is the only force that should prevent you from carrying out a task. He required his bandmates to show up and perform when they were ill, and he was notoriously unsympathetic to excuses related to health. He was a tough fellow from a rugged era.

[@danmatzner4694]

I am an anti versus! It’s both nature and nurture!!! With all the innate (possibly genetic) abilities a poor environment/habits are difficult to overcome. Cultivation of enjoyment & passion are paramount nurturing aspects. Awareness of reality plus nature and nurture allows individuals to reach their maximal personal potential

[@JohnyG29]

Not being from the USA I'd never heard of Manning. I guess he must be one of the best players in the sport he plays?

[@itsstj3741]

No

[@323096685]

one of the best players in his position (quarterback)

[@zealot5590]

Google it.

[@ashutoshkumar3921]

This is star talk ! Oh my god Niel , that damn voice of urs is so soothing

[@hacurass7159]

Chuck is the smartest comedian in the solar system

[@silentthriller]

Muggsy Bogues was a 5'3" pro basketball player. I'd say what he lacked in height, more than made up for in grit.

[@notarealperson87]

plus he was in Space Jam

[@ozzynomicon2817]

Jack rabbit genetics also helps alot too. Lol. Pro hoops are 12ft. College and high school are shorter

[@Eseibio__]

@@ozzynomicon2817 he could dunk

[@brettrossi89]

Has there ever been a 5 foot 3 white player in modern sports ?

[@kevinashe6]

@@ozzynomicon2817 nba rims are 10ft

[@gondoyuri]

love me some startalk

[@kenqb5450]

The ending could also include, "some people are broken down so not to achieve greatness."

[@ryanjohnson2844]

Excuses

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Now I realize that even u r the only person in this lifetime , the whole universe and the LORD GOD ALWAYS GUIDE YOU

[@MelzFootballEditz]

Liking the new cap Neil 👍💫⭐️🌙✨

[@TikkyTakMoo]

13:23 I think is a false correlation. This is in part due to selective bias. I imagine if you were to look into every football players family history, most would not have such lineages. Hendrix did not come from a lineage of musicians. Nor did Eminem. Einstein's parents didn't also make monumental discoveries in physics. There is undeniably a composite of nurture/nature that fabricated the essence of who someone "is", but I think this interpretation gives more creedence/disposition to genetics and isn't tested thoroughly enough to say with scientific certainty. There is enough counter evidence to indicate the mentality individuals possess play a more significant role on the endeavors one chooses and flourishes, than the innate biology (which isn't to deny or ignore its irrefutable role). Stigmas can work both ways. Do you really think Indian and Chinese ppl are just born loving math? There are huge psychological archetypes that have been culturally conditoned at play.

[@Heareaux]

I recommend that you watch the rest of the episode...

[@ArJayDM]

That's not how genetics works. There's no "music gene" or "physics gene" Hendrix doesn't have to come from a family of musicians, all he needs is the genes necessary to be creative and see music the way he does. Same as all the other poor examples you gave. You really said, "Einsteins parents didn't make breakthrough discoveries in physics" and used that as a defense that he wasn't genetically inclined to be the way he is. Are you hearing yourself? I guarantee you his parents were smart people. Genetics plays a role in everything.

[@sureshotunderscor14]

So Neil I have some thoughts and theories that I would like your thoughts on. First is this, so theoretically speaking absolute zero cannot be reached. An early thought I had was that if you could reach it, would time decay stop, or particals completely stop in place? Another is light speed cannot be reached by any significant matter, so if it was could you stop in time or if you went faster could you go back in time? I also thought about if you could work out the incredibly complex and seemingly random orbital paths in atoms could you use that to pinpoint time in space? A final thought is what if we could see a fourth dimension? What would it look like? I realized that a fourth dimension could be an infinite possible timeliness parallel to our own. Or it could be a fifth dimension, while the Fourth is the complete passage timeline. Our brains can somewhat experience this through memory. Anyway that's my thoughts, I would love to know what someone such as yourself thinks of this.

[@frankwrege5043]

The comment on being born with a skill set got me thinking. It is not so much being born with the skill set itself but being born with a better set(higher grade?) of "raw materials" to develop certain skill sets. For an example, in metalworking it would be easier to make a final product if you start with an ingot and not raw ore.

[@jpteknoman]

here's something that Neil didn't know in this episode. plastic is a greek word that means moldable and this is why its a word used for things that can be (re)shaped - literally of figuratively the nature vs nurture debate started at the dawn of research on the mind, there were 2 schools of thought. one said that the mind is programmed from birth (nature) and nothing can change it and the other said that the mind is a blank slate and life is the marker that writes on it (nurture). the truth is somewhere in between. the mind is a blank slate but the color, size and shape of that slate is genetic

[@Gamefreak8112]

Think fast go fast!

[@defcon4824]

I have a question regarding one of your episodes of morbid queries. So if atoms are stretched to strings of quarks and muons and smaller fundamental particles when falling into a black hole, and the singularity of a black hole a Planck particle the smallest theoretical particle in the universe, where does the matter go? If every particle is bigger than a Planck particle, how can it be absorbed? Does it cluster around a black hole? How would you respond to that?

[@baze3541]

Seeing that thumbnail reminded me of abstracts song nature vs nurture, who knows it? Rly underated

[@marvinkephart1466]

Hello Dr tyson !

[@darwinlaluna3677]

How amazing life is,

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Its both. You need the right genetic make up to grow to be 6'+ and over 200 lbs, but its being trained by a Pro Quarterback father that allowed them to gain the skill need to become a pro quarterback themselves.

[@benjaminvanlandingham5568]

Eli my dude!!!

[@fgtrhwu2]

Kinda reminds me of Anakin Skywalker vs Darth Vader. Anakin had all the gift but not the discipline or focus in training compared to Vader. Vader was so focused in his training that although he had lost so much of his original body and force sensitivity, he is still very powerful. So both are important but nurture is more prominent in this case.

[@fbeshir1163]

Science for sale? Thumbs down!

[@msmith53]

Fantasy vs Reality...?

[@fgtrhwu2]

@@msmith53 Yes kinda like a lazy gifted person vs a hardworking normal person.

[@philsphan6865]

I love chuck!!!!

[@thewb8329]

Obviously the Manning brothers had the genetics to play pro football but I’m skeptical that they all easily took that path. I would like to hear from some third parties that had exposure to them while growing up. Maybe it’s a perfect storm but results like that are not typical in my observation or experience.

[@morganmoran7225]

The Manning's are an interesting example of nature and nurture and I appreciate the analogy. But, it seems to assume that parents are the only form of "nurturing" one receives while growing up. I wonder how much pressure to be "like their dad" was applied by their peers, teachers, coaches, etc.?

[@ARP07501]

This was great!

[@joekenorer]

23:40 When I used to play pickup games with my friends back in high school, whichever team I was on was limited to two rush plays per turnover. I was a tank.

[@FusionDeveloper]

Just because something exists in nature, doesn't mean it is prolific enough to not need to be nurtured if you intend for it to exist in abundance an area you personally select, on your own chosen time-frame.

[@nativedoll3557]

My bucket list is you what I would do to just spend an hour or two with you 🙏👍♥️

[@tvspy9770]

That bottle full of milk really does represent the role of nature and nurture in our lives

[@CloneBaxren]

Flat earht

[@edo471]

Isn't there an infamous unpublished nature vs nurture article/investigation that got uncovered by those famous triplets? Hahahaha i mean i Haven't even watched 5min of this podcast and maybe they do mention it, idk i will watch it and return to reply to my own comment and shut myself up hahaha

[@hacurass7159]

You should do a live episode Neil

[@Anti-HyperLink]

Extroversion is a personality trait. How do you practice that?

[@_TheDeanMachine]

I was just thinking/talking about this yesterday, spooky.

[@gabrielsatter]

NDT was hiding that badass condo with that zoom in on those birds...

[@PdP968]

Yes there were a few times Payton and Eli faced off in a game. I know when Payton was with the Broncos, the Broncos won against Eli and the Giants, everytime they met. Not sure about when Payton was with the Colts.

[@aaronbailey3942]

If energy can never be created or destroyed, the universe will seem to be inflating if the method of measurement is energy.

[@CloneBaxren]

Flat earht

[@Watchingthesim]

Eli is one handsome man......genes play a big role in his case

[@alria2133]

Does super heating 1 point on the sun can help the sun last longer?

[@RuePerrue]

Hi Neil: Here's my question. When the Sun is high in the Sky and I'm lying with my back flat to the ground, that is how I get tanned the most. Later on, as the Sun goes down, I may sit up accordingly so as to keep normal to the sunbeams but I won't get tanned as much as before. Here's my guess: the perpendicularity part of the argument is right, but when the Sun is low, it has to go through a thicker layer of atmosphere, so I get lower intensity. Am I right? Thanks a lot!

[@linyenchin6773]

Common sense indicates "yes," do you really want to tax his time with a rhetorical question?

[@RuePerrue]

@@linyenchin6773 Yes but thanks for your concern

[@hamidreza1998]

Nice hat

[@pejko89]

I'm so happy

[@wedieritrea131]

Here is what I think for those people gifted with certain skills need a little push but for those people born with no skill requires a lot of push

[@angeloavanti2538]

chucks' correct. back in the day those guys did want to hurt you. but..finesse does have its place.

[@1983hala]

StarTalk can you put an arabic translite because there are hard words to understand 😅

[@theshark84724]

Is Eli Manning right there with Tyson? Or is it some kind of virtual thing that makes them look as if they’re in the same place?

[@davidt3956]

I once asked my parents what was their biggest mistake. They thought about it and said it was that they taught us to think for ourselves. :P

[@vitriolveio]

That’s sad to hear bro

[@davidt3956]

@@vitriolveio Get a grip, there's a reason there's an emoji there. They said it tongue firmly planted in cheek

[@alexanderrundqvist9458]

I just have to know, why do you have so many recommended channels? Some are just, from what I can see, random people, what's that about?

[@spencerturner4490]

Eli must be the most random guest ever I’ve seen on this show. I’m here for it go giants

[@BartyTheParty]

YOOOO!!! Go to 15:53 and you can hear creepy whispers in the background for like a solid 10 seconds! I can't hear what they're saying, but someone else PLEASE tell me they hear that too!

[@bradleybohus4097]

"I want to do this not that" Inspiring where'd that come from?

[@infinitechoices1641]

Its both but nurture has potential to be the biggest factor by a large margin.

[@Eseibio__]

Joe Jackson was a tiger parent.. muchael Jackson turned out pretty good

[@Anti-HyperLink]

Did Eli Manning say in his own words "do or do not, there is not try"? He totally did that. Talking about how he doesn't think about how to throw a football. Although, I would say if you're serious about professional football, you do need to at least learn that type of thing. He probably learned it and it became muscle memory. Or he was just a natural. I don't know.

[@steve-o6413]

Manning has quite an arm, but just as important he has quite an eye to read the field...