Without natural aptitude, you wouldn't go anywhere.
But without the aptitude for it, Schwarzbeck chose to go the business school route.
Unfortunately, for many, sudden wealth without financial aptitude often ends badly.
You don't get to be the best-paid athlete on a planet that houses Lionel Messi and LeBron James without a formidable aptitude for marketing and deal-making.
Cole says teachers would make sure pupils understood that this was because you'd be unlikely to cope with the subject without a strong aptitude for maths.
A mini L. B. Jeffries, the beady-eyed little fellow buys novelty X-ray glasses from the back of a comic book; tapes up pictures of his idol Beethoven, like the "Peanuts" character Schroeder without the musical aptitude; and begins breaking into houses as if they were cardboard dioramas, sniffing women's lingerie, slugging their Scotch and generally trying to capture their auras.
"We want to bridge that gap, enable anyone to get excited, learn the skill without that massive aptitude you need to really get started," he adds.
Mayo said he had gone through school "without showing any aptitude" for writing but one day the teacher had read out the opening paragraphs of his essay "because I had actually got it right for once".
At school, Nansen worked adequately without showing any particular aptitude.
We have to accept at face-value the depth of their training, their skills and reflex abilities, and we allow them to carry weapons they can point and shoot without knowledge of their aptitude to be judicious about that power.
Anticipating evidence that may be offered through upcoming witnesses, a victim's ability as a singer may be remembered without playing a song, and another victim's aptitude for poetry without giving a reading".
