Once upon a time people didn't expect as much out of life as we might today. They grew up, got the best paying job they could find, raised a family and died. Today many people grow up expecting to be great in some way. We see it happen on television, or in movies all the time!
The problem is we expect it to be easy, or to take a couple of hours, the length of a movie, to happen. Greatness takes time! Real time. Years of training or education where natural skills are honed and perfected, followed up with a confidence that is the icing on the cake.
It is the confidence as much as the training that matters, although without the training we are only flimflam men hoping not to get caught.
Perhaps it is something we must be born with, the Magic gene. The gene that once got you noticed by kings, or burned at the stake. That ability to put years of work into perfecting a skill and then presenting it to a doubting world so they believe what you want them to believe is pretty magical. Great doctors, lawyers, and actors are born with it.
It is magic that is older than time.
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