NY Times: Sorry, Strivers - Talent Matters.
“Sometimes the story that science tells us isn’t the story we want to hear.” Sometimes the story science tells is so narrowly focused as to be meaningless for some pursuits. Memorization is not creativity — or ‘soul.’ Improvisation in jazz, for instance. There’s a noticeable difference between those soloists who string together memorized riffs, to those who freely randomize within the individual notes of chord progressions (I hope I explained that clearly - words are failing me). The latter are significantly less-common to come across, sadly.
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This is the return of Gladwell’s 10k hours theory.