-
I thank you for this little nugget @jumpinjeff .
I used to think I was “smart”. Now I understand that is an illusion. Life is a process, but it doesn’t move forward at a steady speed. There are jumps and stalls to the forward motion. That means at times I can appear to make spectacular progress and other times it appears that I am incapable of progress. Both things are illusions. The truth is that time and effort were put in during the “stall” period that lead to the “jump” forward. So I was neither spectacular nor incapable.
But I have been slow at applying this insight to my guitar journey. It took time for me to realize that I had to put in such pain staking effort with no visible results for quite a while before the “miracle” would happen. I still want to think “I should be able to get this faster, better, cleaner, smarter, bigger, etc.” And when the little miracles happen (small wins), I want to think “Ok, I am a capable of being a guitar player”, which implies “from now on, I will make the kind of progress I expect“. See how subtle I am at avoiding that little word that I know is a trap?
So thank you for solidifying this understanding that I have to take things real slow to get new things under my fingers AND YET it doesn’t mean I am incapable of making progress in my guitar journey.
So here is today’s guitar lesson: I am neither spectacular nor incapable. I am simply a guitar geek like everyone else and news flash: this is what it takes. 😄
MG 😀