innate ability

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Drawing on Carol Dweck's concept of a "growth mindset," he encourages adults to focus praise on effort and learning rather than innate ability.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

"I have an innate ability to take good material and make it better, and to take bad material and make it fair."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Yet, for all of her work building an empire, Paltrow still has the innate ability to disappear into a character.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025

Mr. Sowell emphasized this repeatedly: The same innate ability can produce different outcomes depending on the norms that surround it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

“Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern