BarkellWH -> RE: how fast do skills deteriorate when one ceases to practice? (Jun. 15 2013 19:02:28)
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If you had it once, you can get it back so to speak. Here is the thing for me, as I said last time this topic came up. It's about INSPIRATION. If you have it, you will play your best and get better. If you just practice to practice you are not really achieving anything IMO. I only practice when inspired and sometimes I can't put the guitar down for hours. but when I force myself to work I don't notice much improvement and in worst cases playing guitar suddenly feels like driving a truck. I just put it away and do other things until I get the inspiration again. Inspiration can come from MANY different sources by the way. Ricardo, you have hit on something that is key to advancing in any endeavor, whether it be music, writing, art, or just about anything else. Inspiration is key: with it one can accomplish more than one might think; without it, the effort is just work and leads to mediocrity. Hemingway once said that he considered his day a success if he was inspired to write just one true sentence. (Sounds Hemingwayesque, no?!) The point being, inspired to write one true sentence, and then going to El Floridita on Calle Obispo in Havana to drink frozen daiquiris and talk to the local whores was more of an accomplishment than spending the day writing mediocre paragraphs. Cheers, Bill
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