his ability to hold a 3D image in his mind, tweak and rotate it, and then put it on paper, is something innate.

This is coincidentally a symptom of dyslexia, so you are right to think of it as something innate, unfortunately. It's also why so many architects are dyslexic.

True, and it actually makes up the majority of the skill as well, i just don't like to look at people as gifted or lucky because it's unfair, it's kind of sad hahaha

I get easily conquered by defeatism if it's done through pure logic and there's no doubt about luck being a huge factor in skill! And in life in general, So i just kind of look away and continue grinding what i enjoy, because it's the only thing you can do to enjoy competitive activities

When people say some people are wired different, they're usually thinking of high functioning autistic people. I would argue "innate talent" is very often autistic brains (look up the local overconnectivity theory) developing a special interest young enough that it became as second nature as other things typically learned at such early an age like a native language.

But I think what they're talking about is moreso relevant when we're talking about two people with equal potential because no one is disputing that the intellectually disabled exist. Two gifted kids may develop very different special interests. One might be reading math books at 8 years old likely because their parents are engineers while the other hyperfocuses on Harry Potter just because. The first gifted kid might tie their identity to their intelligence and look down on the other as being stupid. The second kid might internalize the message and who knows what they could've been. Society will label the first person as smart and point at all their status achievements as proof and label the second person as stupid and point at all their unproductive hobbies and lack of achievements as proof. But those external validators have much more to do with their interests, dedication, and what they value than they do with innate intelligence. I would also add onto this socioeconomic class as the biggest factor, but that's its own discussion.

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Nah, that would be great news. Being dumber than anyone you’ve ever met makes you less responsible for things like climate change and political violence than the people around you (morally, at least; you’re probably literally more of a cause, because you’re more likely to be right wing, but if you’ve already jumped that hurdle, maybe you aren’t). Plus, if your own life is a wreck, it feels better to blame an inherent limitation than something you could change, if only you had the discipline. If your own life is great, you’ve overcome a serious obstacle and should be proud of yourself.

Not really, i've know many people like this who were bottom of their class and had edge over me in chess, fun games like it or random specific trivia, they don't do it to feel intellectually superior they do it because it's more enjoyable to them than studying

They're not dumb they're just not trying altogether, and when i talk with them about the topics they enjoy they actually show great understanding on them, it's all just people with interests

If they were trying, say in a debate and they're deliberately refusing to follow simple proofs they themselves use, yeah then they're dumb, but i've never come across someone like that that still managed to be good at something, it's a core part of learning as a process

Sure there are people with useful interests and ones with useless ones, but i refuse to call the useful ones smart and useless ones dumb, it's demeaning to those people's capabilities, i don't hold anyone to this way of thinking it's just mine