Comment by melvinroest
8 hours ago
> I think the analogy/ substitution falls apart in that singing is generally not very stable or lucrative (for 99.999% of singers), so it is pretty rare to find someone singing who hates it.
I tried to cover this particular case with:
> And while it is easier to become good at coding than at singing - for professional purposes at least - I believe that the effect still holds.
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> Yes, loving something is no guarantee of skill at it, but hating something is very likely to correspond to not being good at it, since skills take time and dedication to hone. Being bad at something is the default state.
I tried to cover this particular case with:
> It is of course positively correlated with it.
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> Being bad at something is the default state.
Well, skill-wise yes. But being talented at something can happen, even when you hate something.
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