Which somewhat explains why...

... I am learning the saxophone. I played in college as a music major, but now I am learning it again as someone who wants to seriously play it someday. (Yo Branford, don't get all panicky on us now, I aint gonna go for your gigs.) I just want to be able to pick up the tenor and play some songs kinda, well, kick ass - ya know.

Creating Passionate Users: How to be an expert: "Seriously. How many people think they've missed their opportunity to be a musician, or an expert golfer, or even a chess grand master because they didn't start when they were young? Or because they simply lacked natural talent? Those people are (mostly) wrong. According to some brain scientists, almost anyone can develop world-class (or at least top expertise) abilities in things for which they aren't physically impaired. Apparently God-given talent, natural 'gifts', and genetic predispositions just aren't all they're cracked up to be. Or at least not in the way most of us always imagined. It turns out that rather than being naturally gifted at music or math or chess or whatever, a superior performer most likely has a gift for concentration, dedication, and a simple desire to keep getting better. In theory, again, anyone willing to do what's required to keep getting better WILL get better."