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by superblonde » Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:18 am
In the wildly popular "10,000 hours" book, which encourages many people to "try, try, try and then try again, until you make it", what's often glossed over is the tiny print regarding some types of success requiring Average Taste: only those with Average Taste will make art which appeals to the mass audience in order to reap the financial rewards of the time/$ investment. An example of what would not reap rewards, regardless of "10,000 hours" or not, is being incredibly passionate about art which current audiences don't care about, even though it's great and someone may have become expert-level at it, for example, prog metal music, or jazz trumpet, or many others, etc. Yes there are exaggerations in various parts of the 10,000 hours book and large parts of it have been debunked.
The principle of Average Taste shows all over, in Billboard charts, etc. The artists creating the highly $$ successful art may have the rarest natural-born talent in the world, absolutely low-class/average artistic taste. The failures & difficulty of someone with "fine art taste" attempting to adopt or appeal to an Average Taste also show all over, ask yourself why you have never purchased and would never consider purchasing a tabloid newspaper, or Seventeen magazine, etc, while standing in the grocery line and staring at the print covers, while others can't wait to get their latest copy and read it passionately. Yoda voice - "and that is why you fail"