pst great guitarists no longer get the good life and by good life I mean sex drugs and rock n roll x forever and then do reunion tours every 6 months
Look at Malmsteen or whomever you want who are considered the fastest and most technical. Just sitting there doing tutorial videos against a painted neoclassical backdrops and getting fat :fat
What you need is to sell your soul for the power to write the most emotionally charged songs, but
safe. Then you've got it made and you get to have as much bespectacled emo preteen sex as you want YOU LOOK PRETTY EMO NOW, BITCH as well as money but xNODRUGSx gotta keep it clean
And to answer your question, I'd poke the guy in the eye and then say that it's a trick question there is no soul lol fuck you hah