From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019042509435832814-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Read somewhere that it takes, on average, 10,00 hours to be really good at   
   > something like playing an instrument. What is that, like 8 hours a day for   
   > 5 years ?   Sounds reasonable to get up to just competent level.  Becoming   
   > really stand out amazing is more than that. That takes that level of work   
   > PLUS some inborn thing called talent.   
      
   > Not everyone can sing, or play well, no matter how they try.  Talent is a   
   > real thing.   
      
      
   JimD   
      
   Not everyone is *disposed* to sing and/or play well, which also figures that   
   no matter how much they try, their results will be limited due to their   
   hearts not being fully into it, if they're not so disposed.   
      
   I have a different view of that. With extremely few, if any, exceptions,   
   nobody is born with talent - it's far more likely to be born 'rich' i.e.   
   'loaded' with Filthy Lucre, and speaking of which, I recall a preacher on   
   the radio mentioning that an actual Biblical unit of Filthy Lucre, namely a   
   "talent", was about as much as most people would earn in an entire year.   
   Clearly, this related a monetary talent, or a skillful talent, to a lot of   
   hard work, which I've personally discovered, as have you, to be the case   
   where Music is concerned - or anything else requiring skill for that matter.   
      
   Rather, what one may be born with is the *aptitude* for those various   
   activities, that a person may find they're *apt* to pursue.   
      
   But talent is something that Must be Earned by Diligent, Honest, and   
   Dedicated effort over the long term, sustained by genuine Love for what   
   they're doing, literally a Labor of Love...which is why Music makers so   
   regularly practice, at least the ones worth listening to...to Increase and   
   Improve their talent, and thus further enhance what they Truly Love.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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