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nature vs nurture
By Drew Brown
Nature vs. NurtureNature vs. Nurture

Some say that people of great achievement are born that way. Others claim that anyone who applies the right attitude and effort can be moulded into someone great.

Here’s an example: Michael Jordan didn’t make his school basketball team because they said he was too short to play for that level and for not being considered good enough. The next year he grew four inches. he also spent that time training harder than the players on the team, he became to be one of the greatest basketball players ever.

Then there are those that are naturally gifted, Usain Bolt who broke the 100 metre and 200 metre sprint world records at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and won the 2012 Olympics. Bolt was always fast. There was never a time when he was slow.

I think both nature and nurture are equally contributing factors to a great athlete, nature can provide you with muscle fibres to improve ability at a certain sport for example high twitch fibres are better for sprinters like usain bolt where as low twitch are better for long distance runners like Mo Farah. Nurture helps to improve your ability at a certain sport, without training you will never be the best, training helps strengthen the fibres and gets them to recognize movement and learn to move faster By Drew Brown
Nature vs. Nurture

Some say that people of great achievement are born that way. Others claim that anyone who applies the right attitude and effort can be moulded into someone great.

Here’s an example: Michael Jordan didn’t make his school basketball team because they said he was too short to play for that level and for not being considered good enough. The next year he grew four inches. he also spent that time training harder than the players on the team, he became to be one of the greatest basketball players ever.

Then there are those that are naturally gifted, Usain Bolt who broke the 100 metre and 200 metre sprint world records at the

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