There two types of skills, Hard skills and Soft skills. HArd skills are what you learn. soft skills are what you are, like empathetic, leader, communicative etc. LEarn the hard skills of what you want to do and trade off your soft skills. Employers want the hard skills, obviously, but they are really looking for your soft skills. How do you fit, want can you bring and so on. Lots of people have and can acquire the hard skills, but only you have your set of soft skills.

Neither. Just do it and enjoy it and see where it takes you.

Do the thing you love, if you have a talent for it or are/or ambitious in that area then so much the better

Inspiration!

Either one of them, combined with passion, can make you good. You need all three to be great.

I'd say go for your natural talent.

I myself wanted to be an actor... until I found out how much you had to kiss ass to get ahead. I just enjoyed the process and performing, but hated the auditions and behind the scenes politics. I have almost no ambition for monetary success, but I do have great ambition for always beign at lest content, and I have no trouble doing things that brign me happiness.

The ideal is always to be able to do what brings you happiness and also be able to make money off of it. I have yet to find something like that for myself.

If it was me, I'd go for talent. But you need to go for whatever feels like it connects with the deepest part of you.