I truly feel that the moment I liberated myself from the ideas of ‘doing / learning things for productivity / success’, my relationship with everything changed. Like wdym I can learn typography without becoming a designer, learn to play an instrument without ever performing, and just.. be?
There’s a lot of info about ‘perfecting a craft’ but I’d bet it would help most people to just ‘dabble in a craft’
It’s not too late to learn the piano / guitar! Yes, even if you can’t read music. It’s not too late to learn to read music.
To learn to speak a new language. To learn to knit or sew. To learn to do woodworking. It’s perfectly fine to not do any of these things too. It’s perfectly fine to not want to do anything as well.
But if you have ever been curious about something, especially something different from the things you do for money, you can do anything
For folks in SF, look up Community Music Center. They have good classes in almost everything for adult learners of music. Including people with no experience at all. They also have scholarships for lower income folks. Two campuses, one in Mission & one in Richmond
@skinnylatte What even is mediocre? I'm in a weird limbo of knowing that professionals would consider my skill fairly poor, whilst when people with no knowledge hear me play they often suggest that I could turn professional. Does that count?
@skinnylatte one of my most meaningful art classes in college was called “digital sketchbook”. we had to use all kinds of different pieces of technology to create are but we were forbidden from finishing anything.
really a meaningful experience to be forced to work that way
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