You're looking at it all wrong! Getting stuff wrong doesn't mean you're going backwards, it's how you learn!
It's kinda like cooking: sure, you can read a recipe and kinda get it ok the first time? But the way to really learn how to make something new is to make it over and over again until you got it down perfectly. If you try to make bread, you won't know you're kneading it too hard until you've tried it once, yeah? No amount of describing it will make you perfect at making bread until you've tried it yourself and you can feel just how hard you should be kneading it.
Everything else in life's like that too: making mistakes is just how you learn 'oh, that way didn't work, let's try another way.'
[He's trying to be encouraging, he really is. But he's talking from a space where he's always been a fuck-up in some way, and it might hit differently for someone who's been a prodigy up until now.]
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Date: 2022-06-27 05:26 pm (UTC)It's kinda like cooking: sure, you can read a recipe and kinda get it ok the first time? But the way to really learn how to make something new is to make it over and over again until you got it down perfectly. If you try to make bread, you won't know you're kneading it too hard until you've tried it once, yeah? No amount of describing it will make you perfect at making bread until you've tried it yourself and you can feel just how hard you should be kneading it.
Everything else in life's like that too: making mistakes is just how you learn 'oh, that way didn't work, let's try another way.'
[He's trying to be encouraging, he really is. But he's talking from a space where he's always been a fuck-up in some way, and it might hit differently for someone who's been a prodigy up until now.]