Your talent is on loan. Use it like someone is coming back for it with interest.
GRATITUDE
GRATITUDE
Ability feels like property because it came with you, and thinking of it that way tends to make it either a source of pride or a thing to protect. Held as something entrusted, it changes character: the question stops being how much credit you get and becomes what it produced and who it reached. Borrowed things get used carefully and returned improved.
Ask what your particular ability has actually done for anyone else lately. Give it away somewhere this month, teaching, playing, building, helping. And keep developing it, since neglect is its own way of wasting what you were handed.
Which ability have you been sitting on instead of using?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.