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A separate "talent" slot is still bs to me.. Talent is a drivers makeup.. it's not a separate indentity..
Not really... well I guess that depends on how you think of talent. To me talent is how good someone is at something straight away.. you know, someones "natural talent" .. someone who is better at something after a ton of experience I just refer to as skills.
I have a friend in motorsport who basically every time we've been in a new class of something - karting, formula fords, formula vees, whatever - He is always always always faster than me straight away, by quite some margin, but after months of practice I always end up being the faster one. So I always refer to him as having more talent, but myself more skill through experience.. He just picks things up faster than I do but seems to cap off earlier than I do.
I dunno XD Just how I look at it.