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Mike–
This latest post of yours is great! You have applied it to guitar, but I think it generally applies to most any king of learning.
As a young-kids-up-to-18-or-so baseball/softball coach for a few years, I always tried to remember that I ONLY really had two jobs…… Period.
1. Teach the kids the fundamentals- (just so they had some kind if idea what they were doing!).
2. MAKE SURE they always had fun in the process….. the BIGGEST goal….. is to make sure they all want to COME BACK the next year…….. mainly because it was FUN.
That was pretty-much “it”.
(The actual “unspoken, behind the scenes” goal was to make them better- and then hand them off to other coaches as they get older and move on “up”. Our little town of Montesano has many, MANY fastpitch softball State Titles as a result of literally decades of this coaching philosophy. Hundreds of coaches thru all the years– same philosophy).
Well, nowadays, for me, it’s guitar.
The longer I stay “in”, the more fundamentals I learn. The more I learn, the “better” I get. The better I get , the more satisfaction I get out of it. The more satisfaction I get out of it, the more fun I have with it…… up and up……
(quote from your post)—- “the main secret? Keep coming back. The secondary secret? Have fun.”
Yup—- that.
TOC