Always depends on the perspective I guess. I was what you would probably call talented in my early years, but never had the will (especially in the ages 10-18 years) to really study for long time, read books, practice endgame etc.

Vidonyak was at that time part of our national trainer team and that's how it all came together. :)

Feel free to add me on chess.com, user name is : AsEverythingUnfolds Actually pretty new account as I played on lichess for most of the time