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Talent isn't everything. There's lots of real talent doing nothing but going to waste. There are also those who appear at first to be moderately talented, at best, and they just keep on improving and improving until they pass everyone else up.

Talent is very misunderstood and very hard to gauge. Its clear when someone whose played the guitar for six month's can play things others trying much longer can't, that they have been given a gift. It doesn't mean they're going to be the best, or even better than you.

Plus, whatever talent you have, you have. That hand of cards was long over the first moment you woke up. You work with what you have, period. You can't acquire any more talent and you can only develop what you've got.

Our advice is to assume you've got a fair bit of talent that at worst is a little buried, and work to develop it. When you judge people to have more talent than you or that you don't have any, keep in mind that if you don't have any, you're in no place to judge whether you, or anyone else has it. Best to assume you have a normal amount of talent, whatever that is, and get on with your playing.

If you're going to tell yourself anything, tell yourself that you're getting better and better everyday and that you're having fun. Tell yourself that if you work at it, you're going to find more and more talent in you as you go. Then go out and put attention and effort into developing you're gift and have as much fun as possible doing it. Everything else will take care of itself.