A college counselor offered a great example of the limits of a specific talent.
It's just a tweet, but it also seems like confirmation of the specific talent that New Yorker critic James Wood praised in a lengthy panegyric in 2010.
It also distinguishes Bobby, a man of no specific talent or vocation who merely gets a job and rides it as far as he can, from Allen, whose lifelong artistic calling is itself a kind of love.
But his primary purpose here was to be looked over by the heads of various important business clans, who were introduced to Mr. Posen by Mr. Ruttenstein, one by one, and who suggested that they were aware, if not of his specific talents, certainly of his name.
Most of the new music and arrangements were written by members of the group or composers close to it, back home and in New York, with an obvious ear to the overall beauty of the voices and the specific talents of individual singers.
Elite colleges "are more focused on putting together a class made up of a bunch of individuals with very specific talents".
A part of the literature also reports various cognitive profile and specific talents in information processing in the clinical population of gifted children.
Pooling our resources, joint experiences, and networks of contacts, we started helping recruitment agencies bring in specific talents to feed the growing life-science industries.
Kloosterman (2010) describes a 'global elite' of 'highly skilled immigrants with their portable skills …. who flock to innovative places where their specific talents can be used best' (p.36).
Specific talents and knowledge, such as design skills and legal expertise, can also be sourced.
