Talent is just survivorship bias. At an early age a person randomly tries a bunch of different things, and by luck they happen to do one of those things in an

Talent is just survivorship bias. At an early age a person randomly tries a bunch of different things, and by luck they happen to do one of those things in an optimal way. They keep doing it that way and pretty soon they improve and develop a lead over their peers that is difficult to overcome. Thus a talent is born.