when i was younger i was consistently one of the smartest people in the room for a long, long time, and while that made me an insufferable asshole in many ways it also gave me a kind of self-trust i'm grateful for and that i often see people lacking
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I only adopted the asshole part, and a strong aversion towards anything where I'm not instantly brilliant. Took me years to unravel that, and there's still work to be done.
ha, yep, same. it's most obvious in the way i instantly stop playing video games when they get even slightly difficult 
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Can you confirm me that people like us may be very musical but totally not cut out for playing instruments, right?
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you mean because you won’t practice? personally i got decent enough at piano and guitar from lessons as a kid for my purposes (accompanying singing), not looking to be world class or anything like that. depends on what you wanna do
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