{"id":1572,"date":"2013-04-18T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2017-12-09T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T12:58:20","slug":"talent-vs-skill-vs-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2013\/04\/talent-vs-skill-vs-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Talent vs. Skill vs. Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1.jpg\" alt=\"skill talent creativity\" width=\"639\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1-400x399.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>I always feel very self conscious when people say I have talent or am talented.&nbsp; Part of me would like to soak it up and believe it while the other part thinks that talent is a magic I do not yet possess.&nbsp; Now skill, is easily spotted, it is the ability to do something well.&nbsp; It usually comes from lots of practice.&nbsp; You know the techniques, you know how to do it, you can spot and fix mistakes as well as perhaps even come up with solutions on your own.&nbsp; Creativity is another tricky one but is so vague that I feel that I am creative.&nbsp; I like to think of it as the ability to do stuff without instructions.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t mind making stuff up as I go along, and feel comfortable not having to follow instructions.<\/p>\n<p>I am not just ranting, I always wonder about this trio in the creative world.&nbsp; Do you need creativity and skill to be talented?&nbsp; Can you be talented without the skill set? If you are creative but have no skill will you be able to execute your ideas?&nbsp; Do they grow together? Can one grow and drag the others along?<\/p>\n<p>I feel that I can learn new techniques and improve my skills, I can also challenge myself and think out of the box more often and be more creative but how can I become more talented?&nbsp; Talent to me, seems like magic. Is it?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always feel very self conscious when people say I have talent or am talented.&nbsp; Part of me would like to soak it up and believe it while the other part thinks that talent is a magic I do not yet possess.&nbsp; Now skill, is easily&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giveaway-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Untitled1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-pm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}