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> the music just won't happen, even if you're Mozart.

Thousands of self-taught musicians, many of them famous, beg to differ. Not that this is relevant to the discussion but the example seems flawed.

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Ok, let me rephrase: "[without using any instructional materials] the music will take an unusually long time before it happens, even if you're Mozart". Which seems to correspond to the problem that if you keep hacking at a Rust compiler without using any instructional materials, it will take an unusually long time before you eventually get the code to compile by trial and error.

Most of them had mentors in one form or another.

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