I'm not disappointed; I'm just tired of reading overly-reductive accounts that talk about how all that matters is practice and anybody can be God's gift to music if only they'd work hard enough at it. Ten thousand hours is a concept popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and he has a whole spiel about how anybody who was as excited about hockey as Wayne Gretzky could have been just as good.
My hobby these days is playing Tekken, which I guess is similar enough to piano in that you can practice forever and you've never totally mastered it.
I'm just tired of reading overly-reductive accounts that talk about how all that matters is practice and anybody can be God's gift to music if only they'd work hard enough at it.
Did you mean to say my 'account' is one of those? Well, I didn't say either of those two things. (I think your account was overly reductive.) :-) Good luck!
Your account is fine. But others, most prominently Gladwell, are specifically pushing a narrative that innate skill is irrelevant in the face of practice.
My hobby these days is playing Tekken, which I guess is similar enough to piano in that you can practice forever and you've never totally mastered it.