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?

Thank you and happy holidays.

Hello everyone. This is my first post. I am glad to find a place where we can discuss magick.

I've recently started works of magick, but I would like to give my opinion on "how to become a great magician".

The first benefits I am getting from the rituals is dominate my own mind. Which means, I conduct my state of mind: if I am alone I can manage to get to the state of mind I want, and when I am with other people, I can correctly deal with the words and the influence I get from others, in order to maintain my wills and get what I want.

I think that if you manage to get self control and brightness, so that you can deal skillfully with anything in the daily life, than that's one hell of a power you have in hands.

I myself don't believe in entities, I believe in my higher self, which I don't think will ever stop me from being a good magician. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dance2.gif)