Skill

We all admire talented people.

You know... the kind of people who can naturally do something amazing... as if they were born to do it.

They can talk in front of crowds of strangers and not break a sweat.

The words just flow and flow when they sit in front of the blinking cursor on a blank screen.

They swing, run, play, lead - all with so little effort it must be talent alone that makes them different.

So, if that's not you - and there's nothing discernible you've discovered as you unique talent - that means you should just give up I guess.

Because skill - you know, something you have to work at, put yourself out there over and over again without recognition or appreciation or pay, and will be so painful and humiliating over and over again - skill just isn't the same as talent.

Or...

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