[dofm]

This makes me sad. I am very confident it's also wrong; it fundamentally misapprehends what talent is.

As well as not particularly being innate or "god-given", talents tend to emerge only when supported by learned ability. And not even just your own learned ability. Talented violinists exist only in a world that had talented violin makers: you perhaps cannot fully know how society could benefit from things you could learn.

Two of my mini-talents are things I used to think were not just difficult but actually things I would be specifically bad at, like, worse than most people. (Which may for complex reasons be a sign I would not be)

I believe it also misapprehends where the boundary between practice and consumption can sit, too, but that's a longer comment.

No matter which side of the equation you sit, try to unlearn this belief you have, and help others unlearn it.