Inside a ship's engine room...but wait

While all of that is true, it's important to remember that some people start with a huge head start. Sometimes it's because of their environment, or because of money, or because their relatives have skilled knowledge in that area already and can start teaching them from a young age.

BUT... some have a genetic edge. They were lucky enough to hit the genetic jackpot in a way that lets their brains or their bodies do things others simply can't, no matter if they put a lifetime of effort and practice into it. Sometimes (one or two people in each generation, or century, or millennia) luck into getting every possible beneficial factor to fall in their favor plus they have a drive to be as good as possible. Those people are phenoms and when you find one, it's like finding gold or hitting the lottery jackpot. It is almost transcendent to see them perform their art.

Here is one of those people.

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