Treat your talent like a loan. The payments are practice, and the interest is what you give back.

Aptitude you did nothing to earn is less a possession than a responsibility. It came from some mix of luck, early exposure and other people’s effort, and it stays useful only while you keep working at it. Left alone it fades, and used only for yourself it stays smaller than it could have been.

Two questions are worth asking this month. What are you doing to keep the ability sharp, and who is getting the benefit of it besides you. Teaching one person something you find easy costs an hour and answers both at once.