Talent is roughly the ability to learn and apply that learning. So you want people to have 'constant learning', but ignore that they first have to be capable of learning that material at all.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/tennis-star-to-und...
Surgery to improve sporting performance is OK but steroids are not. Weird, huh?
Talent in intellectual endeavors is hard to define. In the liberal arts it's sort of an awareness for context, and recognizing unique ideas. In the sciences it's often a capability for symbolic manipulation and internal visualization. However, since the brain doesn't have hard physical limitations, much of this can be developed with extensive training, so that slight weaknesses can be overcome.
That's a pretty extraordinary claim.
By comparison, if you would lose your right leg, your body will not grow a new one.
I love this quote.
Reminds me of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant. All 3 very talented. And all 3 were always the last one out of the gym.
It also give me (and all the rest of us hope). Whenever I'm stuck on something (and think I may be slipping in talent, perish the thought), I know that all I have to do is keep at it until I figure it out.
Talent + Grit + Time = Results
The ratio of addends on the left doesn't matter. The sum does.