When you're learning a skill, you're not terrible. You're just new at it.

When you’re learning a new skill, you’re terrible at first. False.

This is wildly untrue:

When you’re learning a new skill, you’re not terrible at it.

You’re new.

Your muscles have to get used to doing the new thing.

Your brain has to get used to recalling what that thing over there is called.

Your body has to get used to adjusting itself like this or that in order to do what you want it to do.

In the beginning, all of it is going to be awkward and you have to mentally rehearse every single step and it takes forever to make yourself do the thing and then it never comes out in real life the way it seems in your imagination.

As you keep doing it under expert guidance (we call this “taking lessons” or “practicing” or “working with a mentor”) you start noticing that certain skills start getting easier. You’re getting faster.

You’re getting better.

You’re improving.

You start getting good.

You keep going. You keep taking classes. You take more risks.

Then you notice you created something and it is really good, even by your standards.

You’ll note that none of this has to do with getting paid, of earning a living with it, or in any way exchanging this or that thing for something you created.

In and of itself, the creation process is precious and joyous and difficult and wondrous. As you play in this realm, as you grow in this space, the art is elevated, simply because you chose it and it chose you.

When you’re learning something new, you’re just new at it. That’s all.

Keep going.

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