Talent

Talent is generally considered to be a personal gift or skill, possessed by relatively few, fortunate people. However, almost everyone has some degree of talent, or 'innate ability' in some particular field of endeavour; though few people are aware of their 'talents', or are able to make proper use of their talent as a result of that lack of awareness.

Talent (in the sense of natural ability or giftedness) is not the same as skill, which is a learned process, and one which is enhanced or inhibited by an underlying talent. Innate talent(s) is the result of early childhood neural development, during which time patterns of synaptic connections are laid down in the brain and become essentially fixed and enduring (hence capable of measurement) by around the age of fourteen.

It may also refer to:

Entertainment

A show-business personality or group of them
Talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses
Talent manager (or personal manager), one who guides the career of artists in the entertainment business
Talent scout, responsible for finding and developing talent
Talent show, a live performance spectacle (sometimes on TV) where contestants perform acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics and other art forms
Tarento, the Japanese pronunciation of the word, a Japanese show-business personality
The Got Talent series of television shows, in several national versions
Talent, a 1978 play by Victoria Wood
Talent (comics), a comic book series written by Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski, drawn by Paul Azaceta.
Talent Series, a series of books written by Zoey Dean
Talent, the first novel in that series.
Young Talent Time (1971-1989), an Australian television variety program on Network Ten

People

Billy Talent, a Canadian rock group from Toronto
Jim Talent (born 1956), American politician, former Senator from Missouri.

Places

Talent, Oregon, a city in the United States

Other

Talent management - the recruitment and management of talented workers
Talent Zoo (or TalentZoo.com), a recruitment company and job search engine specializing in the communications industry, including the advertising, marketing, public relations, broadcasting, and publishing sectors
Fresh Talents Music Project, an education project based in Rijeka, Croatia
Talent (measurement), an ancient unit of mass and value
Attic talent ancient Greek coin
Talent (train), a model of train manufactured by Bombardier

Translation

The word "Talent" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Czech, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak.

Translation(s) in other languages: Danish: Talent (flertydig), Korean: 탤런트, Italian: Talento, Russian: Талант (значения), Swedish: Talang, Ukrainian: Талант.