alt Hacker NewsNo .. not really. Not even close. Just like even if I practiced music 8 hours a day I wouldn't be able to come up with the music Kurt Cobain has or Mozart. There are plenty of musicians who try really hard but lack the innate talent - at best they can learn to play other people's music but never can come up with good original music, at least not something other people want to hear.
As someone wrote here innate ability is a real thing
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jama211 • today at 7:26 AM
I actually think you could. If you’d done that, with enthusiasm* - and not just practiced but guided, trained practice, you 100% could.
testaccount28 • today at 7:13 AM
whatever helps you sleep at night, brother.
I think you’re confusing mastery with marketability. “Other people want to hear it” is at best adjacent to someone’s skill at composing or playing music.
There’s plenty of mediocre musicians who became world-famous, and plenty of great musicians who nobody’s heard about. Skill and success are pretty weakly correlated.