(07-13-2016, 05:57 PM)Valence Wrote:Very good is in the eye of the beholder. I kept it vague to avoid certain people just waiting to jump on me about it lol.(07-13-2016, 03:12 PM)Aaron Wrote:(07-13-2016, 11:50 AM)Valence Wrote:Not really, there's plenty people that have mastered similar stuff in shorter times both irl & in fiction.(07-13-2016, 09:22 AM)Aaron Wrote: But that's besides the point. Aaron my character for example is very good at both magic manipulation and swordsman skills considering he spent like three years training with it non stop before his current self I rp. Like, he literally did nothing else but train.Â
3 years is absolutely peanuts in that kind of things. A drop in the water at best. You will probably be a neophyte after that, nothing more. That's how it works with art, drawing, music, martial arts, swordsmanship or whatever else.
To put it frankly, let us look at the 10,000 hours rule. In short, that's a lie. I could get complicated and explain it but that's too much work.
I guess what I'm saying is there's no static timeframe for one person to get highly adept at something. No where in my post did I say Aaron was masterful,I simply said he's "very good", also for clarification.
Gotta read between the lines there. Unless you know a timeframe to judge someone's ability in a field that was vaguely classified as "very good"?
In 3 years? Are you kidding me?
Well, in any case, I never saw anyone like that in my entire life. I have been to art schools, do art myself, and anyone that tells me outright that they master their field (drawing, painting, whatever you fancy), after just 3 years, is suffering from heavy delusions.
Seriously... 3 years.
Will have to agree to disagree on that one, but that's just silly. Go tell me that a musician gets a master of his art after just 3 years. Really?
I'm certainly not saying that there is a fixed timeframe, I'm just saying that be it a master, or 'very good', after 3 years, is silly to me. Unless we somehow put a very different meaning behind 'very good'.
I've two friends, one who started drawing literally a year ago and he's already better than some of the artist I've seen on deviantart. And another who's taken up tae kwon do I think four years ago and he could probably beat up everyone else I've ever met.
Take this with a grain of salt, I don't really care. My initial point was that being good at something doesn't have a timeframe. Those people you see flaunting 4 year bachelor's degree in fields probably have a amateur that put half the time in and is on a comparable level to them living somewhere simply because they had nothing else to do and a ton of free time.
Ever heard the phrase hard work with no inherent talent is useless?
ALL THAT ASIDE THOUGH. If anyone's really thinking I have my character handwave their fighting experience as a showboat he could probably beat anyone up. All I can say is , lol. I even stated in my initial post that sometimes having Aaron win a fight because of dice felt weird to me. That was like the third sentence of my post.
Idk, some people just zone in on what they want to pick at I guess.
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