Sometimes questions are meaningless.
When I hear a student or an aspiring musician ask, “Do I have what it takes?”, I think, “What does it take?”
The truth that this is a classic case of the old truism, “Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you’re right.”
Musicians need a lot of skills, and they have to be developed over a long period of time. Do some people have innate gifts? Certainly. Are they necessary for success? Certainly not.
There is no one thing without which you cannot succeed. There is not even a constellation of gifts that are absolute barriers to success if they’re missing.
Do you have what it takes? Sure. If you really want it and are willing to keep doing the work, you do. So by asking the question, you’re showing that you want it – so you do. And you’re asking, which means that you need external validation of your pursuit- so you don’t.
It’s both. It’s neither. It’s meaningless.