I think it's easy to be talented when you get to decide what to be talented in. But most of the time you don't get to do that. If the project is to make a secur

I think it's easy to be talented when you get to decide what to be talented in. But most of the time you don't get to do that. If the project is to make a secure desktop application communicating over the internet in a certain time frame and you aren't effective at working in teams, network security and/or user experience etc. you can claim to be as talented as you want, you probably won't deliver good results anyway. You probably can't even properly judge what a good result is.