Some people's minds are different.
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Then again, there’s also this. Fugue in 6 voices. Maybe jotted down while sharing a cup of tea with Anna Magdalena?
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@george-k Yes, they have brains that are wired differently, having some parts that are amazingly developed for specific skill sets. Some is skill acquired from hard work and practice, but there's something more, something innate, to account for a great deal of the difference in ability.
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When I was 17, I was in a school jazz band with this tenor sax player who could write down the score from listening to a recording - he was a year older than me. After listening to him play, I came to the realisation that my sad dreams of becoming a musician were just sad dreams.
On the positive side, he ended up playing for Simply Red for 25 years, so I kind of got my revenge
Bastard.
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My nephew might be like that. He can pick up any instrument and within a week be playing it. He's studying music now at TCU. Hs latest concert with their jazz ensemble (he's the sax closest to the keyboards - only been playing sax a couple years)
His first solo of 5 or 6 is at the 1:58 mark.
Link to video“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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All that stuff can be learned—even the bits that are up to personal interpretation. Literally all of it. You don't have to have what the Bee Gees had in order to do that eventually.
Chuck Close (look him up) has prosopagnosia.
Many, many incredible visual artists have some form of aphantasia. They literally have no mind's eye.But it takes a shitload of work, and most of us don't have the inclination. Art is a magic trick that way. Subway sketcher guy? You didn't see the hundreds of hours he wasn't socializing, learning perspective and interpreting tonal values.
Yeah, people are wired very differently, and learning curves vary. Sure. What holds us back is inclination, not talent. The latter doesn't matter nearly as much as people think.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in Some people's minds are different.:
What holds us back is inclination, not talent.
You been reading Gladwell again?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Some people's minds are different.:
@mik that's SO cool.
How much of that was improvised, and how much scored for him?
No clue. But the kid is good. This is only his sophomore year. He also plays the big drum in the marching band. Plays bass and guitar too.
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@george-k said in Some people's minds are different.:
@aqua-letifer said in Some people's minds are different.:
What holds us back is inclination, not talent.
You been reading Gladwell again?
Nope, I've just seen that so many times from "gifted" and "talented" people. Most of them were total hacks but they got the bug to do the thing, and nothing could stop them.
I graduated in the top 10% in my Master's, and on top of that I got more stuff published than about half who were in that 10%. I'm not talented in any way whatsoever. Most of my classmates treated lectures as another thing to scratch off their to-do list. For me, there was no other place I'd rather be. I couldn't think of a more fun way to spend my summer break than in the library every day, working on my shit. Only difference.
It's also a lot more common if you pay attention. Sure, we're all impressed by the sketch artist because it's exotic to us, and we can appreciate the final product. But what about the guy making absolute bank at freaking Sunglass Hut because he can get people to buy anything from him? What about the old lady who can grow flowers no one else in her entire town can get to work? Or maybe the gaspasser who makes his own furniture?
It's definitely cool to see how other people think and appreciate the cool shit they can do. But we could too if we put in our time, which we won't. We'll get into other things, and thank God for that. More stuff to share.
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@mik said in Some people's minds are different.:
My nephew might be like that. He can pick up any instrument and within a week be playing it. He's studying music now at TCU. Hs latest concert with their jazz ensemble (he's the sax closest to the keyboards - only been playing sax a couple years)
His first solo of 5 or 6 is at the 1:58 mark.
Link to videoThat's very impressive for somebody who's only been playing sax for a couple of years.
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@george-k said in Some people's minds are different.:
She laughed and said, "A measure? I'm usually 6-10 measures ahead of what I'm actually playing. "
Don't fly your plane anywhere unless your head was there at least 5 minutes ago.
How many re-wired brain mutants have done things that would never have been done without them?
I think guys like Babe Ruth, Jack Nicklaus and Bob Beamon, Wright Brothers, Von Braun, even Einstein were inevitable, or close to it.
da Vinci, maybe.
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That is almost like those "idiot savant" people.
Here is one guy that, after taking a helicopter ride over Tokyo, re-draw the city from memory in good perspective!!
Interesting part starts at about 3:20
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