At the time, I thought that this was normal (and youtube wasn't as big as it is today, I had no comparision). I had violin lessons for 10 years and never started to learn vibrato or shift positions. (and maybe a bit of epigenetics through environmental factors such as nutrition-just had to add that cuz I’m pretty into developmental epigenetics, haha) Genetic contributions to talent are almost meaningless, so unless we’re talking about a mutation that makes learning a particular skill harder, it all comes down to training through repetition, ideally when your brain has higher plasticity (i.e. I think talent is just enjoying something enough to be willing to spend a lot of effort on improving your skills if you enjoy something you’ll learn it quicker. My younger brother did though he as a toddler and up would really work on his drawings, kept making notes of which ones were better, and would draw the same things again and again to try and improve-so now at 16 he’s an amazing artist. It’s just that most 2 year olds don’t spend 3 hours of concentrated practice to learn a specific skill-I certainly didn’t □. If you started learning anything at age 2 and really consistently put in the effort with an expert teacher, anyone would end up a prodigy I think. I think a big thing (at least looking back at my own childhood and my peers) is that most young kids don’t focus a lot of their time/effort on one thing.
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