this is when everyone grows up and gets real jobs
I can tell you that "talent genes" are no more helpful in the long run than, say, being given a killer computer, as opposed to saving up and buying one yourself. Eventually, the one saving will have caught up, and the given one may be obsolete by then, anyway. You think talent is what made Charlie Parker great? How about Steve Vai? How about Dali? They got far not because they came out of the womb with better motor skills; they worked their asses off, practicing and training in their crafts for amounts of time most people would deem ridiculous (for example, Parker supposedly practiced 15 hours a day for the two or three years leading into the height of his career). Technical proficiency aside, the other thing that made them great was imagination. Everyone has it. Some have simply "freed it" more than others. Anyone can think outside the box, but few choose to do so.
I guess everything and everyone starts somewhere, and sometimes those things get corrupted by what it turns into. But thats another topic for another entry.
Maybe i'll write about something flimsy and shallow and not about music next!
2 Comments:
hey
good point. but for some of us, no matter how hard we work our asses off, we still are inept in certain things. Like my calculus classes this year, for example. I just couldn't do well enough for the professor. I however, DID feel i learned the material and am able to mostly understand.
I have become a little cynical about the whole idea that the harder you work, the more rewards you will get.
This is far from always being true, and it is a great american dream that has become a great american lie. Any more, it seems to be more about who you know than who you are.
Hope you had a good weekend
ily
You're correct hon..i think i'll expound upon my second paragraph next update. My whole idea in the first part is a bit idealistic beacuse the playing field is not exactly level.
ily
talk to you soon
-randy
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