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one of the scariest things with learning something truly unfamiliar to you is not being able to feel like you can defend your own decisions
‪i have had to make so many decisions on the course of my musical journey and i think i am constantly afraid some of them were Wrong, but i can't really let the world decide everything for me? i have to have my own taste in things, stubborn and based on strange chance as it may be‬
‪very grateful to the friendly swedish man in the music store who promised me i won't regret my choice of guitar. i think i needed that‬
‪it's troublesome because i know i will make the wrong decisions, sometimes, but i also know that there can be such a thing as too much outside input. i am not always as strong-willed as i may seem. i am so tremendously grateful to all the people who've responded to me tenderly‬
‪the reason adults struggle to pick up new skills is not that children are gifted in some special way, it's that adults struggle with adult expectations; to learn something new requires safety in being a child again‬
@hikari in my limited experience, a good way to make a team unstoppable is to have a willingness to cover for others while they make silly mistakes
(this works best in environments where direct competition with them isn't a factor you have to personally worry about)
@hikari oh i also felt that as a child