it's really obvious that some people here are confusing talent and creativity with technical ability. maybe they're so adamant because they don't have any natural talent? even as kids in elementary school, children have different abilities. why are people so threatened by that? and anyone who has actually taken an art class will know that students vary widely in their aptitudes and skills. There are students there that have amazing technical skill, often after years of "practice" but lack the creativity of some others. Technically perfect but soulless and dull and unimaginative. yes, your camera can do a lot for you, and you can master your settings, but that won't make you creative. you can use all the HDR and blending frames but it won't make your photography good. everyone can work to improve their skills and become the best that they can be, but to think that everyone can get to the same place is just delusional. Some people are born with perfect pitch; I can't sing on key. No matter how much I were to practice, I'll never be a Streisand or Sills. That's not defeatist, it's realistic. I'm more than ok with that. My strengths lie in other areas. But then, I embrace the fact that we're all different.
Talent and creativity are a technical ability. I agree I have no natural talent because it does not exist. I worked for every achievement I have earned, and its been a lot of hard work. How would you go aboue teaching someone engineering, my profession. Its not that you weed them out in kindergarden and say Oh that one has talent for it! No, it requires 4 years of very hard college work plus 5-10 years of industry experience to become "expert". This isnt something that is inborn, and its not something certain people have a knack for. Its 100% hard work and effort. If you havnt done it, then you probobly dont understand. I imagine you would get the same response from a doctor, laywer, research scientist, athlete, etc.
I am so adamant because I see a lot of people stiffling their chance to grow and achieve because of their own incorrect assumptions and conclusions based on heresay or old wives tale. People used to believe earth was the center of the universe too. If you can look at the data in a critical manner and then tell me there is proof talent is inborn......I am waiting with baited breath. All of the research I have read shows the exact oposite, to many researchers suprise.
Last week I visited an art gallery and talked with the owner. He was clearly enthralled by the work in his gallery and just gushed about it. He loved art and said it was his calling. When I asked if he did his own he said no, he didnt have the talent for it. Here is a man who clearly would get great great great fulfillment out of his life if he could learn to paint. But based on societal assumptions about talent he may never put forth the effort to learn because he thinks its pointless.
Thinking that everyone CAN get to the same place is not delusional, it is a scientific fact. Thinking that everyone WILL get to the same place, now that is delusional. But whats stopping them is not the inability to gain skill, its different life priorities etc.
Just so you know you could sing like Sills, just go to vocal coach Linda Septien and work hard.
