If you don't consider yourself talented, but you make it a profession, you can make it work and become successful, but if you have the talent, and you aren't a

If you don't consider yourself talented, but you make it a profession, you can make it work and become successful, but if you have the talent, and you aren't a professional, then there's nothing you can do and everything will end in failure. I've learned that lesson the hard way I think. I read the Pragmatic Programmer early in my career but I don't think I understood it very well.