Talent is cheap – you have to be obsessed, otherwise you are going to give up.*
John Baldessari

Even if someone is born with a particular talent it will usually remain latent it is not fostered, honed and exercised.  Not all people get the same chance to cultivate and refine their abilities.**
Yuval Noah Harari

We’re probably all born with certain predilections,^ which
we quickly start develop into skills and talents –
That we can develop these puts us
on the hook (one hook we should
want to be on), to see who we can become and
what we are capable of doing
for the benefit of others;
Of course, this will require effort –
Angela Duckworth is right to insist
we will need grit, but then
you are obsessed.

*Austin Kleon’s blog: You have to be obsessed;
**Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens;
^Cerebral or somatic advantages that we have over each other.