I've been playing for 30 years and I feel the same way. We can all get good eventually, but to cross that line and be an especially talented musician Takes something more than hard work and study. It takes "Talent". Although it is possible for all of us to be good. There are those who have a rare "Talent" I have no proof of this. But, what is it that makes a "Steven Via" a "S R Vaughn" a "Eddie Van Halen", a "Larry Carlon", a "Al DiMeola" a "Dajango Rienhardt." It has to be a special & natural Talent for the guitar. Maybe those rare talented one's were guitar players in a previous life. Some of these "special players" knew what they wanted to do before they could speak RTO :)