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Is it me or is this getting easier? I don’t know, but whatever it is, I LIKE IT!!!!

Your snowball is rolling down the hill and gaining mass. Winning.

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I just drove by. I couldn’t get in.

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whatever nerves you felt surely were gone but the second lyric phrase. Seemed pretty Fletch-ee-pooh magical from this side of the camera.😉

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C’mon now, we know whose fault it is….Fletchchchchch. He aggravated the hamsters.

Hello, is there anybody out there? nod if you can hear me is there anyone at home…?@ Fletch…..Bueller…..anyone?

I got back into New! Message From Tony. Wow there are quite a few posts, yessir quite a few.

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@ Loraine S:

“how others perceive their work and effort’s value and motivation”

That was a roadblock for me, I did not find meaningful progress until I abandoned that notion. I had to figure out how I could be intrinsically satisfied. External recognition didn’t make me want to play, it made me want to stop. My intrinsic motivation came in the form of personal recognition of progress (acquisition of applied knowledge and skills) small wins right?. I was distracted by the many voices of external recognition. My extrinsic reward comes from being able to sit down and play anything with anybody. Letting go of what you think about my journey up until now freed me to focus on *right now do we like the sound we make when we play together*. The sound I make is the story of my journey. My sound is my badge. My sound is my extrinsic reward. When I can make that sound with another musician harmoniously and in time, I am intrinsically satisfied. The only way that happens is by finding the joy in the effort, that is the “fun in learning” part.

BTW, Love these conversations!!!

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and the “result” of the effort is real too. The result is the playing experience. 100% agree the effort is real. I want my real effort to have practical results relating to my goal.

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yes I get what you are saying. The badges had a meaning, they were a virtual representation of effort. What if we change the focus from the virtual representation to the real world. I have tremendous satisfaction every time I strum a Bm chord and it rings clear, when I need to make a minor chord and I can identify the 3rd degree and flatten it the get my minor tonality, when I make a D shaped Gchord on the 7th fret and then do an octave run G to G as a result of knowing the CAGED system. Those are the rewards I cherish. And they are never going away as long as I keep playing.

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😃❤👍

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Great question: “what’s this all for anyways”? The answer I found, It is to learn to play guitar. Seems simple but the proof is in the pudding not the badges one has, or not.

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