It can be said that Randall believes that his ability in calming other people to be an innate talent, which means in the great debate of nature (how someone’s genetic predisposition affect a person’s abilities, behaviors, and beliefs) vs. nurture (how someone’s environmental conditions affect a person’s abilities, behaviors, and beliefs), Randall will be on the side of nature. This can mean that he believes in the heritability theory, which states that variation in individual traits (both physical and psychological) between people are due to their respective genetic variations.