But if you decide you’d like to have a certain skill, and have a good attitude about the necessary period of sucking at it, there’s nothing stopping you from acquiring the skill.
Not only this, but if you find a skill intimidatingly impressive, you’re probably overestimating how difficult it is.
Indeed. It’s more useful to know what the curve of difficulty is like. A guitar teacher friend once warned me that, unlike the piano (on which it’s easy to make a pretty sound at all and hard to make a complicated one), on the guitar it’s hard to make a nice noise at all but once you can do that it gets much easier. Knowing that, or at least having been told that, has done a lot to keep me from being frustrated while learning the guitar. “It’s okay … it’s supposed to still be difficult and sound weird. I’m still new at this.”
Not only this, but if you find a skill intimidatingly impressive, you’re probably overestimating how difficult it is.
Indeed. It’s more useful to know what the curve of difficulty is like. A guitar teacher friend once warned me that, unlike the piano (on which it’s easy to make a pretty sound at all and hard to make a complicated one), on the guitar it’s hard to make a nice noise at all but once you can do that it gets much easier. Knowing that, or at least having been told that, has done a lot to keep me from being frustrated while learning the guitar. “It’s okay … it’s supposed to still be difficult and sound weird. I’m still new at this.”