>You are what you love to do.

But isn't that just pushing the origin of innate talent a little further back? Remy loved to cook because he was talented, just as much as he was talented because he loved to cook. You love to do what you are.

He had innate skills far above any other rat--note the rat poison episode. Obviously all the other rats would love to have that ability; it's not just their lack of fearlessness and experimentation that prevent them from being able to smell poison.

Like this blogger, I am happy to watch films by Bird that are extremely well made but that rub me the wrong way philosophically a little bit.