What is Talent?

These days, I often watch "You Tube" videos to learn new things. There are so many out there, on a wide range of subjects...

Recently I was looking for instructions for making hand-built pottery mugs, ones not formed on the pottery wheel...

One of my pottery goals these days is to make some useful mugs.

One online pottery instructor, demoing hand-built mugs, made this comment: A lot of people say they're not "talented"... But in my experience, "talent" is often just doing a little extra work. "Talented" people often take a little more time and try just a little bit harder...

She makes it sound as if "talent" isn't out of reach, after all! That's encouraging!