Adult beginner classes are full of people who were told as kids they weren’t “the type.”

A throwaway line from an adult when you were nine can keep a door shut for twenty years. Nobody meant it as a life sentence, and yet you quietly filed yourself under not that kind of person and stopped trying. Beginner classes full of grown adults are what that costs, multiplied by thousands of people. They are all reopening a door that was never really locked.

You can skip the twenty year gap. Go to the thing now while the cost of being bad at it is low. And watch what you say to anybody younger than you.