[steeples]

This article tells a great story about overcoming certain hangups about one's ability, but never touches on talent not being matched to an audience. In some industries it's not what you know, but who you know, and the context. Take for example that famous experiment with Joshua Bell playing the violin in DC Metro Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM21gPmkDpI Nobody even noticed, and having known it was Joshua Bell, they certainly would have. Practicing all alone with a musical instrument in my bedroom is no more exaltation than it is a mismatch of talent and audience. If anything my neighbor will be filing a noise complaint...

[ThomPete]

It's not really about audience but about context. There is a reason why something is music to a whole generation of kids while their parents think it sounds like noise.