What Does Aptitude Mean?

Aptitude is a quality somebody possesses since the time of his birth and he doesn't develop it at the later part of life. There is no certain category of quality that defines the aptitude of a person and it can be both mental and physical.
      
Sometimes aptitude is being taken at par with skills but reality is much different. Skills is something that a person learns in a course of time and often he works towards that direction also the inculcate skills in himself. But aptitude is much different and it does not say that the person has taken any training for it; aptitude are the qualities intrinsic to him.
     
If you have an aptitude for something it will become your natural tendency to work in that direction and if you are encouraged to pursue your career in that direction you are expected to fare better in you professional life.

Aptitude is the natural predisposition towards ability.