I’m not an ML person, but still. That guy has a serious gift for explaining stuff.
His video on the uncertainty principle explained stuff to me that my entire undergrad education failed to!
I'd like to challenge this idea.
I don't believe he's more gifted than other people. I strongly believe that the point is he spent a lot of time and effort to get better at explaining stuff.
He contemplated feedback and improved his explanations throughout the years.
His videos are excellent because he poured himself into making them excellent, not because he has a gift.
In my experience the professors who lack this ability do so because they don't put enough effort into it, not because they were born without it.
Most likely it is a slightly misused idiom rather than intending to convey that the teaching ability was obtained without effort.
gifted and spending time to get it right are not mutually exclusive
That makes the whole concept tick.
Everyone can improve with practice, but some people really are gifted.