like, i can't go "i practiced my scales 10 times a day" because i never did, scales are boring "i practiced piano 2 hrs a day as a kid" nope, hated active practicing. PLAYED piano 2 hrs a day, maybe, but it was just playing beatles stuff and (unintentionally) training myself to play by ear

i am not a technically gifted pianist, in terms of i do not have magical floaty fingers that can do crazy arpeggiations and stuff my fingers are short actually, though the thumb-to-pinky span is pretty good what i'm good at is musical intuition, and i have just enough technical fluency to impress