Natural talent gets noticed early. Humble learners are the ones still improving at thirty.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Early ability carries a hidden cost, which is that things worked without effort, so no method for getting better ever had to be built. When the difficulty finally rises there is nothing to fall back on. Someone who was ordinary at fifteen and had to learn how to learn keeps a tool that does not run out. Over a long enough stretch, that tool wins.

Whichever side of it you are on, build the method on purpose this year. Track what you practice, ask for correction, find the gap and work it. If things have come easily so far, that is an argument for starting now rather than against it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who peaked early around you, and are they still improving?

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