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Talent is the idea that someone has a natural gift or predisposition to a certain thing, whether it is something athletic like a sport, something musical like playing an instrument, writing, drawing, or whatever. My question to you is, do you think that people are truly born with certain gifts in certain areas of life? This would mean a person born without a gift in music could never become a great musician, or a person without a gift in running could never become a fast runner, no matter how much effort was put into the task.

Or, do you think talent is a misconceived version of hard work? In other words, people aren't born with natural gifts towards things. It's only that they worked really hard at a task and people simply see the efforts of the task, not the process.

A third option is that some things require talent while others are all hard work. I.e. someone may say a sports player is genetic-based, while anyone can learn an instrument with enough time/dedication.

So what are your thoughts on it? How many things are talent, and how many things are hard work?