Is Blogging Really A Skill And Not A Talent? What's Your Take?

I am still bugged by the mean­ing of tal­ent in the dic­tio­nary. The first mean­ing entry when I searched on dictionary.com, the term refers to the innate abil­ity or apti­tude. But like­wise, it refers to the capac­ity for suc­cess or attain­ment and the tal­ented per­son. The most remark­able mean­ing, per­haps, of that term came from the para­ble on a Bible pas­sage, infer­ring to the term as “a power of mind or body con­sid­ered as given to a per­son for use and improvement.

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Tak­ing those mean­ings, I’ve come to con­clude that blog­ging is never a tal­ent but a skill.

Why skill?

Skill refers to the acquired tal­ent or abil­ity. But there is still the term, talent.

Mak­ing a logic on that con­text reminds me of my les­son in phi­los­o­phy back in col­lege about uni­vo­cal and equiv­o­cal. If apply­ing the ele­ments of blog­ging, skill and tal­ent in a log­i­cal sen­tence, this may come out…

If blog­ging is a skill

And skill is an acquired talent,

Then, blog­ging is a talent.

I think I may have messed up some­thing here. If you hap­pen to read this and you are a philoso­pher or phi­los­o­phy major, then you can make cor­rec­tions. I may have to do some cor­rec­tions after when I redo my study in logic. But for now, I’ll stick with this.

I have to rebut that state­ment, if it comes up as “true” based on corrections.

It is because I always con­sider blog­ging as a skill. But why?

Sim­ple, it can’t be a tal­ent because you don’t have to be a genius or gifted to learn it.

More­over, with the advance­ment of tech­nol­ogy and the sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of things in the dig­i­tal world, almost every­body can sign up for a blog and become a blogger.

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When I asked my friend of their per­cep­tion about a blog­ger, their first reply was that a blog­ger is a writer. But no, not all blog­gers are writ­ers. How­ever, it has pre­sented an oppor­tu­nity for non-writers to be writ­ers and while those writ­ers can become pub­lished writers.

Although many peo­ple become pas­sion­ate about blog­ging and it requires pas­sion to be a pro on this, I have not encoun­tered nor have known a blog­ger in which he or she con­sid­ered blog­ging as a tal­ent. Or per­haps, I haven’t brought depth to my research.

This is just my point when it comes to blog­ging. I still say blog­ging is a skill, not a talent.

Now it's your turn.

Is BLOGGING a TALENT or SKILL?