The game you play badly can still be the best part of the afternoon.
GRATITUDE
GRATITUDE
Enjoyment and skill are only loosely connected, though adults often behave as if being bad at something disqualifies them from it. Somewhere along the way, play got attached to performance, so the activities you are clumsy at get quietly dropped and the range of your leisure narrows to what you already do well. Children lose entire afternoons to games they are terrible at, without noticing; competence is a nice thing to have and a poor requirement for fun.
Do one thing this week that you have no talent for and no intention of improving at. Notice whether anyone actually minds.
What do you enjoy doing badly and keep doing anyway?
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