How Does One Become A Extremely Talented Magician?, Magicians Options

If someone wanted to become a extremely talented magician how would he go about it? Is 'talent' in the arts an aft form or can it be achieved through hard work and dedication? I believe my current magikal skill and ability is very limited as I have only done a few servitor magik rituals. I want to be very honest here and say I am extremely critical of magik and if it even exists. I have contemplated dedicating a entire life to this and gaining incredible skills but I just need to know it's real so that I know it is not a life wasted. I feel in myself I have been ignored by every entity that is out there as I have never had a run in with one and feel kind of helpless.
I have a question that goes out to the most respected on this forum in that if you were to start from the beggining where would you start to get the fastest results possible? my interests lie in evoking entities and servitor/egregore magik. Alot of my ideas in the past have been a little crazy but I really want to do this the right way and you can be sure your advice will be followed to the roots. Any tips?

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Buy Intitiation Into Hermetics. Read the entire book thru at least 3 times to make sure you understand the entire path the way Bardon lays it out.

Then turn to page one, and start reading and THIS TIME do the exercises EXACTLY as Bardon gives them in the book. Keep working each step exactly as described, until you have achieved the exact results that Bardon describes, exactly as he describes them. This means, among other things, that you do the work with the elements and dont stop until you can light fires, and put them out, can call up rain or send it away, fill small objects with air element and make them levitate, etc. ALL the results Bardon gives int he book, you should work at the exercises until you can do them. (and keep doing these exercises the rest of your life to make sure you are constantly improving your skill and powers)

Somewhere in the pages around the 260's when you begin working with magic mirrors, you will realize that you have become an extremely talented Magician. Hopefully that realization will inspire you to finish the work and complete the rest of the steps given by Bardon.

Seriously, work your way through Bardons first book and you will be an amazing Magician.