>> My hypothesis: I'm actually not very intelligent at all.
> 
> That would be incorrect.  Many intelligent people don't see how stupid 
> most people are.

Perhaps. I don't have any way to verify or refute this one. ;-)

>> Basically I'm the sort of sad loser who will spend 4 hours trying to 
>> work out something, when normal people would give up and go do 
>> something productive. 
> 
> You mean, they'd give up because they can't do it, and go off and do 
> something they're not too stupid to do.

They can't do it?

Or they just don't *want* to do it?

I suspect that if they bothered to try, they probably could. And most of 
them could do it a lot better than me without nearly as much effort as 
it takes for me.

I can't prove that of course. That's what makes it a hypothesis.

>> while any healthy individual would go find something more entertaining.
> 
> Nonsense. You were entertaining yourself, which is more than what most 
> people are capable of.

Maybe.

>> In a directly related mannar, I'm beginning to realise that I'm not 
>> actually very good at playing music either. 
> 
> Condoleezza Rice was recently on an interview I saw. She said she wanted 
> to play the concert piano when she was young. When she was 15 or so, she 
> went somewhere and saw 8-year-olds sight-reading music and playing it 
> better than she could after months of practice. So she figured she'd 
> need a different career.
> 
> I don't think she made a bad choice.

Well, maybe. I think we're all in agreement that my life choices thus 
far pretty much suck.

> If you enjoy it, then you're good enough at it. I played music for years 
> in school, and I hated it. Be happy you've found something you can enjoy 
> practicing even if you aren't a natural at it.
> 
>> haven't mastered it yet.
> 
> So? :-)

That's what I'm saying. To a talented musicial, this isn't that hard. 
Which fairly clearly demonstrates that I'm not a talented musician.

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