Post-Production : Skill or talent are they the same thing??? by Justine-Paula Robilliard

I ask this question as it seems to me that many people here confuse the 2, and they are not the same thing, you have a talent for something, that is built into your DNA, and you have a skill at something, skills are taught, talent is not.... I have a talent for editing, that is not something I was taught, I discovered it, an ability to just know the write combination to edit a sequence, and this happens to be in tv news video editing, it could be applied to longer formats, I have not had the exposure in my career for this... Skills is how to edit on a system, be it imove/Avid/Final Cut from1 through X, or any other format, be it tape or computer, that ladies and gents is a skill, it is not a talent, how you use the video material to craft is the talent.. That is where I am, at this point, I am lacking in the skills department and well without work, this is impossible to overcome. I do not need to learn what is what, I know in my DNA, in my bones, without having to waste time thinking, is that right, it will be right every time, that is what I am, a talented video editor, missing a set of skills, which is the cheapest part to replace, as with the doing, comes the speed. We all at some point were talented and unskilled, some of us were lucky/fortunate to find a easy path to upskilling or reskilling, others less so, and I am less fortunate, I have great ideas about how to break this trend, I have explored and expressed this here and on other forums, so I am consistent in what I say. How hard would it be to invite someone like me, someone slightly older, more mature of age to spend some time working, editing in a 2nd assistant role, upskilling, maybe later make use of my services in a professional manner? No people here tend to suggest outdated, hurtful methods, that simply are waste of time and effort, methods that worked 25 years ago, not in the post internet cloud based world we live in now, we are only limited by bandwidth speed, time is no longer an issue, gone are the days of rooms of tape decks based in some random city that cost upwards of $1m a room, now we have macbook pro's capable of editing a blockbuster on a flight... I can be based anywhere and do the work, for lower costs, no travel into the edit suite, at home... So what are we waiting for? Some sort of engraved invitation to arrive in the mail box? As I do not get mail, mine might never arrive, I am prepared to pay my way to get somewhere to meet, to get to know people, to get work that needs doing done.. For example, does TED Talks need to be edited in New York? Can this not be edited via the interwebs so that my daylight hours are your night sleep hours? I have the tools and the talent, and soon the skills.. Need your help that is all, really how hard can it be???