If you can learn it, it’s a skill.
If it is innate, then it’s a talent.
A person is said to be talented when they seem to possess certain intuition or brilliance in their creative field. But the thing is talent is overrated.
Even Wolfgang Mozart, who is said to be proof of natural talent, gifted since birth, was successful at a young age not because of his “inborn” abilities, but because of his focused training and practice. As a child prodigy, he started playing at the age of 4, performed in front of an audience at 7, but only gained true prominence and high regard when he was 14 years old – a good 10 years of practice!
So if it is not TALENT, then what separate successful performers from the rest of the crowd?
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