> 1) most of us don't know what are talents are > 2) "genius is 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration" > 3) some recent estimates are that it takes about 10,000 hours (*) of > just about anything to master it. this is said to be independent of > "talent". Could be entirely true. There's insights from cognitive neuroscience that suggests expertise involves a change in representation in the expert's field. It could be that you can only learn at a certain rate. It may mean thousands or so hours or it may mean just to live or work in the right environment. I grew up around a machine shop, the family business. My grandfather was supposedly quite the mechanical genius, and Pop's a doctor of aerospace. Naturally, I got used to using the tools and machines, and I worked in the machine shop as a teenager. It sucked... oh, man... it sucked.... but out of college, with no engineering job, I went back to it and worked for two years. I even managed to make an artificial mechanical flower that opens up under thermal stresses. Now, you can see that I got the talent, but you couldn't have expected me to learn a thing about it if I grew up in a different environment. So, there's got to be an element of opportunity that's involved. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
