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Yes, indeed!
As I said recently:
To respond to part of that comment
I might be pretty strongly wired not to get this concept, because I spent several semesters teaching in college, and most of the time when someone can't seem to "get it", I just assume that this isn't what they're good at, but they must be great at something else.
Despite this, I'm still skeptical. I'm not sure that I will ever get over that, but I can try to modify my behavior to circumvent that overestimation.
Most people aren't good at most things, though, so that's actually the situation that counts as normal, even if most people do have specializations that they're good at (which may or may not be the case).