Skill is more important because it gets the job done. Talent never gets the job done. Talent is the good looking secretary who can't type, while skill is the secretary who may not be a looker, but without her your company would go broke. Talent is the useless showoff who has a great set of tools who likes to brag about them, but skill is the often ignored man who knows how to use them. Talent is the new hire with a college degree and a 4.3+ GPA with an excellent resume, excellent talking skills, and answers all the questions right, while skill is the guy who solves problems, comes up with the correct solutions to do the task perfectly. I've seen a lot of talented geniuses but very few who had any useful skills in my 20+ years of sysadmin work, but I've seen quite a few skilled workers in my line of work who don't have any certifications or degree who can find solutions to problems and fix them quickly. So in my experience, skill over takes talent, just like wisdom over intelligence. You might have high intelligence, but wisdom is knowing how to use it.
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Skill is more important because it gets the job done. Talent never gets the job done. Talent is the good looking secretary who can't type, while skill is the secretary who may not be a looker, but without her your company would go broke. Talent is the useless showoff who has a great set of tools who likes to brag about them, but skill is the often ignored man who knows how to use them. Talent is the new hire with a college degree and a 4.3+ GPA with an excellent resume, excellent talking skills, and answers all the questions right, while skill is the guy who solves problems, comes up with the correct solutions to do the task perfectly. I've seen a lot of talented geniuses but very few who had any useful skills in my 20+ years of sysadmin work, but I've seen quite a few skilled workers in my line of work who don't have any certifications or degree who can find solutions to problems and fix them quickly. So in my experience, skill over takes talent, just like wisdom over intelligence. You might have high intelligence, but wisdom is knowing how to use it.