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Originally Posted by Red Indian Chief Torn Rubber
But it's all provable. Especially if you play sports. People constantly keep mixing natural talent with skills. Because skills can be constantly improved until they become second nature. So some one with no skills can work till the have mastered the skills. Skills can also be used as a tool refine talent.
However talent can't be increased. It can only be mastered. It's either there or it isn't. Some one without a required talent can't be taught to have it.
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Because its impossible to delineate the two in the way that you think you have. As I understand it, your talent is your level of aptitude at a given skill.
No one can precisely state to what degree an individual's talent was natural (genetics) and to what degree it was a response to training, not least because how an individual responds to a training stimulus will be in part determined by their genetics! Its fecking confusing, and its why you've tied yourself in knots with the Ruud/Henry example.