Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Are you a believer that creative people are born with a creative gift or talent more than less creative people?

Or can any type of creativity be to learn?

Number one, almost nobody is talented.

Talent is completely overrated.

I would argue that you were born with certain physical talents that enabled you to excel in sports,

that I could never have acquired no matter how hard I tried.

Even that said, though, Larry Bird was not born with the kind of talent that Michael Jordan was.

Larry Bird just grounded out and shot more practice shots than anybody else.

That's a skill. And so it feels to me like talent is a betrayal.

It is undermining all of the people who put all that work into skill.

Don't call someone skillful talented because they're not.

They're skillful.

So we can agree that playing the piano is a skill in the sense that if you work at it, you get better at it.

But I would like to believe that being enthusiastic is a skill.

And then so is being created.

It's a skill.

You can get better at it.

You can choose to put in the work in whatever form it takes.

We're not talking about graphic art here unless you want it to graphic art, to gain the skill. And if that's true, that's really good news, because it means you're not

stuck where you are. It means you can go to where you want to go. And it's really good news because

skills can be acquired. That fills me with optimism about so many things in our world.

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