system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is intelligence genetic? Are some people genetically predisposed to be better at things like math and arts?
gpt
Yes, and no. Intelligence isn't really something that exists by itself, its more a combination of curiosity, creativity, persistence, experience, memory, and calculation. Those are to different degrees innate or trained/learned skills.  Regardless of how smart you are it's damn hard to learn something you find dreadfully boring, and extremely easy to learn something you find fascinating. Though you often need some pretty significant persistence in learning the boring stuff so you have the required foundation to understand the interesting stuff.

As for genetics. Mental strength is a lot like physical strength. You aren't going to win a gold medal at the olympics without both innate talent and a ton of hard work and training. Yet a puny weakling can obtain significant strength through exercise and training.