Does repeated practice improve our instincts?
So if we do something repeatedly will we develop the instinct for that yes definitely doing something repeatedly helps us to do it better and in that sense we can practice and perceive in what we are doing and we will improve at the same time there are some things in which we just are genetically blessed with instincts genetics is basically from the bodily perspective, from the philosophical perspective it is a karma it is karmically blessed so some people say by practicing music they can learn some kirtans, they can learn singing some people just effortlessly know it right and everybody, even those who get it right effortlessly, by practicing they can improve it but it may not be that somebody who doesn't have instinct at all will become a genius in that field so some people just don't know any music some people just they are not very good at keeping things in an aesthetic way they observe, they learn this looks better, this looks better they will also do a decent job but they may never be as good as somebody who just has that instinct from birth or is innate there so we don't need to think of inability to develop excellence in some particular field by practice as a deficiency we will definitely improve our practice but we may not become excellent because excellence is result of both you could say talent and temperament talent and practice talent and you could say commitment so by commitment there can be improvement from whatever little we have but commitment is not a substitute for talent so if commitment alone were to determine anybody who in India there are thousands of people who practice cricket thousands of people don't become Sachin Tendulkar some people just have the talent so we shouldn't have unrealistic expectations of improvement by commitment if we have a particular service we commit ourselves and try to improve it but at the same time we also observe ourselves in devotion and see what service I am naturally good at and over a period of time gradually we can gravitate towards that does that answer your question?