Nature Vs Nurture

Skills are required in many tasks that one faces throughout his or her career, education, or personal life. The ability to read and write proficiently are examples of necessary skills that many aspects of life require. Each person has various skills that he or she possesses to help him or her excel in the workforce or personal affairs. However, the roles of nurture, where skills and abilities are acquired through experience, and nature, where skills and abilities are acquired genetically, affect these skills that everyday people obtain. For example, I have a skill of playing soccer, but neither of my parents or grandparents played the sport, so I learned how to play primarily through the role of nurture, but the roles of nature also played a part in my success. Nurture, the belief that a skill or ability comes from personal experiences, plays a major role in my soccer skills. When I first began playing the sport at age seven, I had not a clue what I was about to begin or how to play the game, but I showed up to

Although most of my soccer skills were developed under the nurture role, genetics are also a reason why I have exceled at the sport. My parents were both active when they were in school; my mom danced for many years, and my dad played football, basketball, and baseball. Their parents (my grandparents) were also active as children whether through sports or tending to their farms, so one could say that my ability to excel at a sport is genetic which supports the role of nature. The first time I stepped onto a soccer field, learning to run quickly and efficiently came naturally to me and allowed me to maintain the ability to keep up on the field because of my parents’ leg muscle masses having been passed to me. In addition, my mom and dad gifted me with a body healthy enough to perform these strenuous tasks, so the role of nature affected the founding of my soccer