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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arrowhawk" data-source="post: 5679744" data-attributes="member: 6679551">That seems true on the surface, but it's pretty tough to find facts to back this up. Mozart was gifted at birth, genetically. You can argue that it was luck that he ended up in a musical family, but it may have been the presence of music while he was in the womb that allowed him to develop his ability prenatal. So it's hard to know how much of Mozart's environment shaped him to become who he was. What we do know is that he was a child prodigy and that he stayed with music his whole life. In his case, being good at something meant he did exactly that.   I have no idea where you get that number since there is no way to measure his level of genetic ability, neither in magnitude nor direction. I agree that convergence is the most crucial aspect of paragon's or pinnacles of human achievement. Alexander the Great born today in French Lick, Indiana, would probably not become anything close to what he became. The movie Schindler's List does a nice job of pointing out how circumstance plays a huge role in what any given individual may achieve. Financially, Schindler never arose to the same height after the war (at least according to the movie). I find this statement curious. D&D 3.5 does not require any intent to learn new spells, it simply happens as a natural consequence of gaining levels (especially for Sorcs). You gain levels as a natural consequence of killing things. So I'm not sure why "drive" would be a prereq for an NPC (which is what I assume you are talking about) any more than it is for a PC.  In the real world "drive" is a factor because there is no such thing as "leveling up" with regards to any skill or profession. In the real world, one only improves at a task provided one draws the right conclusions. Simply doing a task over and over does not automtically make one better at it (I'm specifically excluding tasks that involve motor skills). Just find your post curious and would be interested in your explanations.</blockquote>

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