The skill you’re sure you can’t learn is usually just one nobody ever taught you slowly.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Deciding you cannot do something is usually a conclusion drawn from one bad experience, often in a room where it was explained once, quickly, to thirty people. Math, swimming, spelling, singing: most of what adults are certain they have no talent for was taught at a speed that lost them early. Slow instruction plus time fixes a surprising amount of that.

Take the thing you are sure you are bad at and find a patient explanation of the first part. A book, a video, one person who does not rush. Give it a month before judging any of it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What were you taught too fast to ever really get?

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