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Talent.
The skill and ability required to do a certain task.

We often say that talent is an innate ability.
There are certainly inborn differences.
Differences in perception, ways of understanding, physical conditions—there are aspects that differ from birth.
However, these are closer to possibilities than to fully formed abilities.
If they are not used, they do not reveal themselves; if they are not repeated, they do not solidify.

The moment talent is recognized as talent is when that possibility has been solidified through repetition.
When doing the same task multiple times no longer produces wildly different results, and accumulated experience forms a stable shape, people call it talent.
In that process, the effort and trial and error involved are naturally erased.

Talent is not the opposite of effort.
Rather, it is closer to a state in which effort in the right direction has accumulated enough that it no longer appears as effort.
When something that once required strain begins to flow naturally, we mistake that naturalness for talent.

But this world cannot be explained by talent alone.
Even with the same talent, one person stops while another continues.
Even if someone does not seem to possess visible talent, a person who can endure and repeat for a long time eventually reaches a different point.

Talent is not something that can only be obtained through effort.
Innate sensitivity certainly exists.
However, for it to be called talent, it almost always goes through the process of being used, tested, and repeated.
Effort is not the only condition that creates talent, but it is often the process that completes it.

And talent does not always play a positive role.
When talent is treated as the entirety of a person, that ability becomes not a choice but an obligation.
As expectations accumulate and roles become fixed, talent begins to operate in a way that consumes rather than supports the person.

So talent is both innate and not.
It is a state formed by layering environment, time, and repetition over what is inborn.
Above all, talent is only a part of a person, not the whole person.

Talent is not a word that explains a person.
Therefore, talent is neither something that must be possessed nor something that must be proven.
It is merely the result that shows the direction in which a person has walked for a long time.


The talent you have may feel as though it is of no use at all.
That does not mean it is worthless.
It may simply not be the right time; in another place, it may shine.
So you do not need to blame yourself for thinking your talent is insignificant.
You have your own talent.