from our prodigal Les, >So much is simply preference. Certainly preference >overshadows even technique. Sometimes a unique individual comes along and >even creates a niche or genre of their very own by sheer will (Maria Callas). >A perfect technique is no guarantee of success. Who's idea of perfection is >it anyway? Who's definition do we use? I suspect everyone's is different and >sees a perfect technique differently. No matter, it still all boils down to >preference.
Dear Les, No it's doesn't. You may have preferred not to go through your helicopter training and still have survived for the odd hour. We know you performed better and longer after it, and that was the criteria all your passengers so humbly appreciated. Sure, as you say, a perfect technique is no guarantee of success but it certainly carries a lot of good karma in my book. Preference _may_ overshadow technique, as the young lady who won the vocal competition found. She preferred the glamour to the vocal exercises and no doubt found to her discomfiture, just as I did, that she had been led up a blind alley. (There I go again.) Sorry. The problem is one of timely guidance, fitting to the individual needs and in my opinion, that most often requires external intervention, because the path of self- discovery is slow: tedious and strewn with distractions.
Best Wishes Reg.
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