Is it possible for a person to be talentless?

[Cromartie]

Usually people talk about how much potential a thing has, a person is no different, and generally those contemplations are based on idealism related to "talents". A talent is simply something, for this case anyway, you can do very well. Now there are people out there who claim they cannot do anything (useful) very well and at best are satisfactory with their activities.

What I am curious of is whether you believe it is possible to not be good at anything (useful) and functionally just have marginal skill all around. Now when I say "talent" understand it does not mean the ability to do something, period; for instance it is not the ability to do mental math, even if a lot of people struggle with mental math; a talent would be defined as something done "above average for it's class" so while a person who can do mental math can do a three digit problem in additional a talented person could do a three digit problem in multiplication, etc.

Your thoughts, good sirs?

[alexstorm]

Do whatever you really like that's legal. If you find amazing details in something you really like, you will get better at it. Just being really interested in some hobby, work related thing, study, music, travel, whatever, puts you ahead of 99% of people who don't think too much about that thing. You will get better at something if you are willing to listen to suggestions and try a little step at a time to do whatever you love to do, a little better. You find and do that, and within about 3 months, you will be better at it than most people. Getting to the top is another issue, but you can also become amazingly good at teaching it without being the top talent.

[TheStaff_Sergeant]

Since talent is not a birthright, I think it is very possible, given the fact that there are various levels of intellect and intelligence. A person that's on the lower end of either may find it impossible to progress to an advanced capability in any given task.

[yaddayaddayadda02]

What defines usefulness? If someone is bad at most everything, but has the ability to drink a beer in .02 seconds...that can be useful for bar bets

[Cromartie]

Productive in a manner that isn't "exclusive to a very specific situation". For instance being able to add is useful in many ways. Drinking a beer in .02 seconds is extremely exclusive.