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Originally Posted by demonrail666
You can teach someone how to do something that already exists, but not something that's yet to happen.
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This is very true. However, you can teach them the output from which the thing that is yet to happen will come from, ie. painting or playing guitar. Essentially what irritates me about the concept of talent is it so often equated with skill, painting and drawing 'well' and playing guitar 'well'. But these are still skills, and all skills can be learnt, by anyone, by following instuctions. How often, in proportion to painters, do you hear conceptual, installation etc. artists being described as talented? No often enough, anyway.