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ITALY’S FORMER INTERIOR minister Matteo Salvini has gone on trial charged with kidnapping for refusing to allow a Spanish migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily, keeping the people onboard at sea for days in 2019.
It is the first trial to go ahead against Salvini for his actions preventing migrant landings while he served as interior minister during 2018/19 in an uneasy coalition between the populist 5-Star Movement and his right-wing League group.
Salvini was present for the opening day of the trial in Palermo, Sicily, which was expected to deal mostly with procedural requests.
He has insisted he was fulfilling his duty by refusing entry to the Open Arms rescue ship, and the 147 people it had saved in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya.
He took a hard line on migrant arrivals, blocking ships and pushing for Europe to take some of the burden off Italy.
Prosecutors accuse Salvini of dereliction of duty and kidnapping for refusing to allow the ship into port for days in August 2019.
During the near-three-week standoff, some migrants threw themselves overboard in desperation and the captain pleaded for a safe, nearby port.
Some migrants were taken to land for humanitarian or health reasons, while the remaining 83 were eventually allowed to disembark on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
“We expect justice for the unnecessary suffering that all the people had in those 20 days,” said Oscar Camps, head of the Spanish non-governmental organisation Open Arms.
A court in Catania, Sicily, earlier this year decided not to try Salvini in a similar case, for keeping 116 migrants on board an Italian coastguard ship at sea for five days, also in 2019.
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And Andre Agassi had an obsessive father who made him bat at balls when he was still in his pram, then when he was 7 had a machine fire 1000 balls a day at him to return. It was all down to practice.
Except that Agassi has an elder brother who got exactly the same treatment but never won anything. You can bias a sample to prove anything you like.
True in most cases, but Mozart was no normal kid who just practiced a lot and happened to be surrounded by music , he was a prodigy.
A child is defined as a prodigy based on what they do, not on what they might do. We regularly confuse the attributes of talent, skill, knowledge and intellect. Ultimately none of these will deliver achievement without coaching/education, practice and commitment.
Agreed ben, though I’d add having an interest as an alternative to commitment, as the former drives the later in many cases.
But where talent comes in, is that some folk deliver with far less of that coaching, practice and commitment. Some people catch on to certain things far quicker, and see the big picture – and that in its own right is talent. In the same way that the best sportspeople read a game and execute a plan (with flair to back it up), so to does natural talent in the workplace spot problems before they happen, troubleshoot as they happen, or clean up efficiently after things have happened.
Certain things aren’t taught, and that’s why we speak about leaders, in every context of life.
Talent has to be there in the first place….without it practice is useless
This whole thing is a bit misleading! For most athletes they are genetically superior to your average person! A business leader I could believe but the reason top pros make it in their sport is because they stood out from the field from a very very young age! Hard work will cover some gaps but you need a certain physical structure in the first place!
Ted, look at the YouTube video I posted. You’ll change your mind! Talent, though VIP, is only one factor. Environment, access, peer influence, coaching (education) and opportunity are essential parts of the mix.
This is bullshit, the Kalenjin tribe has physical attributes that suit them to distance running. The Sports Gene gives an interesting, fact based insight into this.
Eh some people are just lucky ba$tards in life.
People can be unlucky but most successful people make their luck. They were in the gym at 6 and/or the office at 7 and do it for life!
True Story
The more you practice the luckier you get
Listen to the man and get proper insight rather than read ill informed comments. Essentially talent is only part of the requirements for success and he believes it is wrong and damaging to young people to peddle the myth that talent is the only requirement.
“it is wrong and damaging to young people to peddle the myth that talent is the only requirement.”
In that case, it’s a happy coincidence that nobody is peddling that myth.
Someone is, on the other hand, peddling a book – to people who want to hear that there’s a path to success for everyone, regardless of their aptitude.
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