>>4567668I don't think I agree with this. I'm open to the idea that you can't become 'exceptional' at something without natural affinity/talent, but I've become good at things that I used to be totally useless at by sheer reps. Best example is socialising - you can only take my word for it, but I'm pretty good at talking to people, charisma and just generally passing as a normalfag or even a chad sometimes. But I guarantee you that I have absolutely no affinity for socialising whatsoever. While all my mannerisms are habitual nowadays, I can think about them and point to each one and how I deliberately trained myself into it, like a serial killer (I have empathy and no desire to murder though, don't worry). I remember what I was like as a little kid in school, and I'm surprised I wasn't diagnosed as autistic even then - if I'd grown up in the 2010s I definitely would have been.
I give that example because with any other example of something I developed by reps, maybe you could say I always had affinity for it, I can't really know for sure. But I'm as sure as I possibly can be that not a single shred of my social skill comes naturally.
