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I don’t like how people define talent(ed) as just how fast someone learns, because people use it all the time in reaction to seeing something great, while having no knowledge of how long that person took to get to that skill level.
If I try to combine the definitions of being a fast learner with being able to produce something of value, it just becomes a meaningless buzzword like you say. Something like talent is the manifestation of luck in the present. Luck being genetics, what toys your parents gave you, the people you are surrounded by, the resources available to you, what you like in media, your reactions to crabbing, secondary skills learned from unrelated work, how you spent your free time etc etc. A million variables that might cause someone to spend time working towards a certain direction at a certain speed until they’re call talented by someone at a certain point in time.
You can’t control anything you’ve done in the past so it’s just luck. Which means it’s just a concept you should only think about if you think it will help you push your luck in a certain direction for the future.
