How's it going you'll hear it listeners?

This is Caleb Kirby.

I'm here with another episode of the Runnyback series.

All right, so today's best of is going to be centered around learning.

I wanted to make this one more of a philosophical approach, a little bit overall, you know.

I think that as musicians, a lot of times getting better,

your instrument has a lot to do with a philosophy that allows you to become a better version of yourself every day. And that doesn't mean like there's some easy trick, you know, to getting

into what you're working on. That doesn't mean like that you're just

naturally gifted at anything. This just means that you've got a goal in mind. You've got a mindset

that you want to accomplish. And the only way to get there is just incremental a little bit every

day. And that's just creating a really cool routine. So this first clip is actually not, it's not about learning. It's about the myths of learning

and the myths of being good at music. And this first clip is centered around how talent being or

examining exactly what it is and how maybe it's not everything that you need in terms of

development, especially in something like music. What's, what's number one? Okay, number one,

talent is the most important. I don't even know what talent is anymore. Can I be honest about that?

Like, to me, talent is a combination of personality traits

that make you good at learning stuff. Yeah, but I think if like, think about your kids, like,

and you've said different things, they're talented in this, he's talent, she's, whatever. So I think

at the younger age, and maybe that's why you, in terms of music, you've been doing this so long,

you disassociate really with the talent. But I do think that it's more applicable at an inexperienced or younger age. But don't you think it's more just a combination of, okay, I might have a couple of physical characteristics, big hands or good ears or whatever, that helped me play music. But more, it's just that I was super interested in it than anything. I was just so curious about it. You know what I mean?

I think that's what talent really is.

Yeah, nature versus nurture, passion versus an A thing.

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