Don.. I like folk music and play & sing... but I am not a *musician*. It is not require to aspire to greatness in order to enjoy. I hope you still play the cello.

BTW


"Tabula Rasa" is really just the idea of people coming into the world with a "blank skate"
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"tabula rasa, (Latin: “scraped tablet”—i.e., “clean slate”) in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists have attributed to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects. {John Locke.}

My 101 psychology class was taught by a guy who treated it as gospel.
(Look up N.H. Pronko) He designed experiments to 'demonstrate' it.... which were roundly disparaged by most of his contemporaries.

He trained pigeons, had a student wear glasses that reversed L&R and up & down.. "See? The mind, properly trained, can be anything!"