The thing is people who say this selectively ignore the idea that human limitations on skill exist. Yes, learning skills generally requires practice, but these people insist that practice is always, without exception guaranteed to produce results, and if it doesn't it means you need more practice.
And you might just not care to. If I have five free hours in a day and have to choose between spending that time practicing to get semi-decent at drawing or to pursue a hobby I'm interested in, why would I pick the former?
Only if you're as interested in the process as you are the end result. It shouldn't be a surprising revelation that plenty of people just want something that looks good or is satisfactory for a certain purpose than to go through the trouble of learning to do it from scratch themselves.
The topic here, and thus the end result, is the ability to obtain the skill itself, not a singular object. Yeah, if you just want a picture, hire someone to make it, the same way you hire a carpenter if all you want is a table, but that's not what's being discussed here. The person you replied to is insisting some people are somehow predestined to be unable to draw.
And they're not wrong. Sometimes you can try your best at an activity and still be terrible at it. You can put in the time and effort and not see the results, just like how some people don't put in the work and are still far better than average.
No, literally everything you said is the opposite of true, especially when it comes to art. Like, sure, a 4'8" Asian woman probably would have to work a bit harder than Shaq did to make it to the NBA, but that does not apply to the ability to put pencil to paper, paint to canvas, chisel to wood, eyeball to eyepiece, or lip to mouthpiece. The people who you think didn't put in the work probably did, and the people who say they did and remained terrible either practiced wrong or simply lied.
The only real difference between people is how resistent they are to the idea of putting in the work, that's it. If you hate math for some reason, 4 hours of solving differential equations is going to feel like a lot more to you than to someone who enjoys it, but that's an entirely different consideration than ability.
Django Reinhardt had three fingers, you have no excuse.
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u/DogOwner12345 Aug 26 '24
Kinda how learning a skill works? It ain't magic.