Question: Where do the talents in a person come from? Why is one a poet, another one is an artist, etc.?
Answer: Well, they usually or not usually come from previous lives. Somewhere along the line we have developed these abilities. Poets, for instance, generally are in the mode of goodness. So they are naturally inclined under this influence to kind of think ‘outside the box’. They are kind of not so much like ‘here, how am I going to make more money?’ but they are kind of thinking, visualizing. So poets, artists are all these types of people. So it is just psychological and physical abilities that are cultivated due to different material influences.