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Big Jim,

I did read ALL your post, but because "some famous songwriter" sends out a song and gets rejected, does NOT mean that Taylor Swift sends out her best song and gets rejected.

You didn't name "some famous songwriter", you named Taylor Swift, and again said this:

I bet if Taylor Swift anonymously sent in a new song unsolicited, even if it was her very best, it would be filed in the garbage bin unlistened to with all the others...and I bet that even if it was listened to it would still find its way into the bin

and then you said

"THIS proves my point", THIS being the Taylor Swift example, not SOME FAMOUS SONGWRITER.

Telling me "some famous songwriter" did that, qualifies as URBAN LEGEND, unless I know exactly WHO you are talking about. Who might that be, Jim? And Jim, even if this guy exists, why did you not simply use HIM in your example? The way you set up your "argument"...it is EASY to knock down. You would have been more convincing researching, finding out "famous songwriter's name", citing your sources, and THEN presenting your argument.

I know HOW to read, and I know WHAT you said, Jim, okay?

Perhaps you skipped logic class in high school?

You say:

I too agree about being positive and striving to get what you want but am not naive enough to believe that you will always get it.

Feel free, Jim, to point out in anything I have written here that remotely suggests that if you "believe hard enough , that you will automatically get it." All I am suggesting is that desire develops an edge, and that believing that it can happen is better than believing it can't...I mean, if you believe it can't, or is unlikely, then why try? And then, maybe it's conductive to less effort, this skepticism?

Mike