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Never understood how some people boil down everything to raw talent that you're born with...

I mean, sure, people have different cognitive abilities, different strengths and weaknesses, etc (like a DnD Campaign, lol)

and I can understand how people can conclude that someone is a very "talented" musician or artist because humans have been around for a long time and us humans have been into music and art for a long time...

but here's the kicker, computers have been around for less than a 100 years or so,
so how the heck can someone be a "talented" computer programmer?

no, they are SKILLED because they worked their @ss off to get good.

No one fell out of their mum being able to do that.

sure, there might be some young kids who seem to have talent for music or art, but you look at their environment, they are usually surrounded by people with the same set of skills, so they're just learning from their surrounding environment, lol

sorry for the rant, I'm kinda passionate about this topic because it's kinda sad to see people give up or not even try because they think they don't have "talent"
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You can be a talented programmer when you can use it to solve problems well / at all that others can't do / haven't done / haven't thought to do.

Abilities needed for doing it can indeed be inherent / "falling out of your mum" (which description explains a lit of being "British"...! ☺🤣). It has zero to do with how long something has been around.

But native abilities vary and can be nurtured or not. Sometimes, people DO grow up in families who are skilled / versed in <x>...and sometimes not.

Encouraging others can be done without trying to cut down people of ability.