Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Raw aptitude with no training still produces something, while training laid over no aptitude often produces a well-informed person who never does much. That is a hard claim and only half the story, since the pairing of both accounts for most excellence. Where one is missing, though, the live one is the better bet.

Useful mainly for how you spend your own effort. Are you accumulating qualifications in an area you have no particular feel for, because it seemed the sensible thing? Consider putting the same hours into something you are already unreasonably good at.