> I'm yet to meet a great coder who wouldn't enjoy coding.

Maybe great coders like it so much because they are good at it. It would be reasonable from an evolutionary point of view to focus on what we are better than others at. At university I have seen people get into a field on the basis of an unexpected excellent grade and conclude they love it, and reject whole fields as stupid and uninteresting after failing - where the directly of causality is clearly result first and love/hate second.

> Maybe great coders like it so much because they are good at it.

I think there's more to it than that. When I first started writing code it was pretty clear that I was not very good at it (at the time), but absolutely loved it anyway. Man, the rush of power when you realize you can get the computer to obey you... that's what got me hooked.

I've thought I was good at coding since middle school. Of course my code actually sucked back then, but at the time I thought I was really good. So I kept doing it on and off throughout my life.

was it good for a middle schooler?

I think so.

Doing something well releases dopamine - isn't that why doing something that you're good at is recommended as being good for mental health and to relieve stress?

> I think the most part of the talent is that your brain likes doing given thing. You enjoy it. That is, unless somebody is forced to, she's unlikely to spend 10K hours on something she doesn't like.

This feeds into the myth of passion equating talent/skill, which has been incorrect in my (admittedly short) experience. I can think of more than a few athletes who had no passion for the game but were phenomenal players.

Bob Ross really was a well of creative wisdom. I've been enjoying watching through all the episodes of his show on Netflix.

Personally I don't enjoy the mechanics of coding. I do like solving problems, and coding is generally the means to that end.

that said, it's also very possible that I'm not a great coder