Natural talent only goes so far. I've never met someone who just started something that was anywhere near as good as a master in the field.
Instruments, games, growing plants, etc. You can have all the beginner's luck you want, but experience will be the deciding factor in how talented you really become at something, in my opinion.

Natural talent probably exists. I feel as if I'm equally mediocre at everything I do that I haven't devoted much time and effort into. I've got the case of perpetual beginner's luck, so to speak. However, like I tried to say, natural talent really only goes so far. I find devotion and genuine care for whatever concept we try to get into is more important han whether or not we're a razor's edge better at that thing we just started to do than our friend might be that just started doing it with us.

I take a long time to learn everything, because, there's really no end to any art form, only dull tasks have an end. You're talented when you know you are capable of more than you just accomplished.