I like this thought, it resonates a lot with my experiences learning the cello over 25 years. Definitely a lot of things that seemed impossible when I saw/heard them as a kid, that it’s obvious how to do now. From which I infer that competence pretty much always feels from the inside like it being obvious how to do something/having to pretty much intend to not do it, to wind up not doing it—aka the accomplishment of X becoming a matter of steering rather than capabilities/prediction once the capabilities are there.
One other takeaway I have from learning th... (read more)
I like this thought, it resonates a lot with my experiences learning the cello over 25 years. Definitely a lot of things that seemed impossible when I saw/heard them as a kid, that it’s obvious how to do now. From which I infer that competence pretty much always feels from the inside like it being obvious how to do something/having to pretty much intend to not do it, to wind up not doing it—aka the accomplishment of X becoming a matter of steering rather than capabilities/prediction once the capabilities are there.
One other takeaway I have from learning th... (read more)