'Talent' is not something anybody should be proud of having. Everybody is born with a particular advantage over other people in some particular area. Some disco

'Talent' is not something anybody should be proud of having. Everybody is born with a particular advantage over other people in some particular area. Some discover this advantage and put it to good use. Others do not, or never have the chance to develop it. So 'Talent' is irrelevant, because everybody has it. The thing to be proud of is discovering your talent and actually putting it to use in a way that benefits you or other people. In a church choir, there are tons of people talented in singing. But they don't try to develop or focus on those talents. And of the programming crew here, perhaps some of you could have turned out to be the greatest footballers in the world. But you may not even know that the balance and co-ordination for this is within you. Instead you're here writing medicore PHP code. To develop a talent, one needs a positive feedback loop. Many people don't get that in the area they have natural abilities in. So, talent is irrelevant. Everyone has it. It's the development of the talent that counts.