I think that people have talents, I mean we have a personality, we are born the way we are, we can not change the bases of our being, we are the way we are and that’s it.
What make us so malleable is not to be able to change, because we can not change, only God can do that, but our ability to use those talents, to make them grow and give fruit.
We can even have a talent that could look bad, but our mission is to transform what we are or what we have in something productive and positive.  In that way of thinking nothing of what we are is bad, ugly or could be took away from us.  We must just transform it to bare fruit, that’s all.
Meanwhile we are in the process to be able to look truly inside of ourselves and accept who we are getting to the point to respect ourselves, we also must have conscious of how important it is to be attentive respect to this growing, because too much is involved in our personal evolution, not only our own, but our all environment.
Life, physically speaking is as a net, everything is connected.  The caos theory tells us that the movement of the wings of a butterfly in Japan can cause a Hurricane in USA, therefore, our connection is real, same thing with the fractals in which we can discover that the infinite to the outside, can also be infinite to the inside, therefore, the big is as infinite as the small.
The connection between who we physically, emotionally and spiritually are can not be avoided.  If physically the smallest particle of me can be as infinite as the biggest part of me, therefore my emotions and my spiritual parts are as infinite as my body and also if I can not change my talents but meanwhile I can make them fructify, therefore the fruit of me can also be infinite.
On the contrary, if I do not put any attention to my own growing in every area of my being, I am destroying my surrounding and I am not being an active participant of the infinite.  Therefore, consciousness is the key to really be.
It is exactly there where I can find myself extremely sinner when I make myself conscious of  what I have become to be.  It doesn’t mean that I rely on myself as omnipotent as God towards myself.  No, as I said before, only God can change us, but, yes, our work is to use the tools and the raw material to build something our better be said, we are the raw material, we have the tools and we allow God to use the raw material and our own tools to build us, our work is not minor though, we have to do the effort of wanting to be used, we have to do the effort to be alert, we have to do the effort of knowing what kind of raw material we have and what kind of tools can be used in us.
Also, God teaches us certainly in the way we need to be taught, I need intellectuality, some would need emotions, etc. but he never gives up on teaching us.