Skills do require training, but isn't it a mistake to discount "talent" as something that doesn't exist? Certainly some people are born with much higher and lo

Skills do require training, but isn't it a mistake to discount "talent" as something that doesn't exist? Certainly some people are born with much higher and lower levels of intelligence which is the result of genetics and not environment or training. It is generally accepted that 75% of intelligence is inherited and not the result of environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ Talent can be just another word for intelligence, and therefore can play a large role in whether someone is a good programmer, chess player, or many other disciplines. That doesn't mean that someone with higher intelligence/talent doesn't need to train, it means that given an amount of training, someone with significantly higher in intelligence is going to perform better in many areas than someone with lower intelligence.