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Is there such a thing as talent that isn’t a byproduct of a high IQ and personal interest
Well, you could have perfect pitch
I used to climb towers for a living. Never thought I'd be into it but I actually really liked it and wish I'd started earlier in life and kept at it longer. Can guarantee the only high IQ involved a tape measure and a bad pun.
How does that work?
Why did they pay you to climb towers?
Yeah, almost all sports. Although maybe you don't consider physical proportions and stuff like that "talent" exactly.
And education.
Education is a measure of stubbornness
And wealth and other forms of privilege, in the case of formal education.
There's also talents that are byproducts of being born to wealthy parents