Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Effort is what makes skill productive.
For a great payoff be especially curious about the things you are not interested in.
Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. And there’s a corollary to that proposition which is very important. It means that you’re hooked for lifetime learning, and without lifetime learning you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.