What, exactly, is talent? Talent's different from skill. Skill is a learned ability. Talent is one that is innate. That is of or produced by the mind rather than learned through experience. Therefore, a skill can be gained, or lost, and while possessing a skill you can use it at any time. A talent, though, is slightly more complex.
A talent is always possessed, but not always apparent. You can't learn something that requires talent, unless you discover that you always had that talent, which wouldn't really be learning. But another quirk of talent, is that you can't always use it. Why is it, then, that so. Damn. Many. People. Try to use talents that they simply don't have... And, here's the kicker, get away with it?
The world today suppresses so much pure, raw talent, that may come from a, shall we say, less than "Hollywood-looking" person, in favor of digitally enhanced crap from the spoiled, rich daughters of celebrities and millionaires. Take a look at the Rolling Stones for example. They are some butt-ugly dudes, no offense, but they rocked the world. If they were to have tried from scratch today, no producer would have given them a second glance.
This effect isn't only seen in the world of music. Writing suffers from it too, add to that Science Fiction being a dying art form, and that spells disaster for the literate world.
The best we can hope to do is to rock the talent so much and so utterly awesomely that people will look past the crap that passes as talent, and start taking a look at the real stuff.
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Well said.
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