The thing is, one of the best ways to achieve deliberate practice is to thoroughly enjoy what you are doing. Yes, you can force your way through it otherwise,

The thing is, one of the best ways to achieve deliberate practice is to thoroughly enjoy what you are doing. Yes, you can force your way through it otherwise, but most people will give up if they don't have a passion for the subject (whether it is playing a music instrument, learning wood carving, or computer programming and math). So personally, I don't think anyone has as much of a natural gift for anything, but more of a highly tuned feedback / reward mechanism in their brain that promotes deliberate practice methods. Unless you want to refer to that extreme enjoyment of a subject matter (and the process of becoming expert) the actual "gift".