O-10, In my experience, no matter what level of talent a person has in any given area, it took years of hard work to refine that talent into an art form. The hard work never guaranties success, but lack of hard work will guaranty failure.
Of the talented people I have known, the ones who did not work to master there craft, were the underachievers who never lived up to their promise. They then blamed someone else or " Luck" for their failure.
We just look at life from different angles. I guess it takes all kinds, as my Grandmother used to say.