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@CrazyJames
Its possible to achieve a competent level in almost any skill, it depends how driven you are to attain what you want I guess, Michael Jordan for instance must have been one of the hardest working men in basketball, as he started off with next to no skill, a poor vertical jump, but then he worked like a bitch, day and night practice practice practice (and took loads of steroids) until he was where he wanted to be, and he is incredibly sucessful at what he wanted to do.
But enough procrastinating, my parents never tried to drill anything into my head other than that I have to work hard to get where I want to be in life, my dad used to like doing this via positive encouragement, and advice when I asked for it, whereas my mum enjoyed criticising absolutely everything I did, and proclaimed at every opportunity how disappointed she was with my actions or how she would have done it differently, or telling me how good her various friends children were at things that I didn't do, or wasn't as successful at......a second langauge would have been cool to.