Klarinet Archive - Posting 000787.txt from 2001/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Giving up. or not
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:26:14 -0500

> Anyway, the reality is that getting what you want is the (relatively)
> easy part. It's finding something to want that takes most of the
> creative effort.
>
> In order to acquire the skills necessary to create, throughout one's
> adult life, goals that one will be happy to work towards, it is
> essential to have had repeated experiences of doing that successfully
> as a child, and quite poisonous to have had the experience of
> chronically failing to.
>
> David Deutsch

So, if you think this is true, and I suggest that it is, you have to be
careful about getting kids to go on doing something they don't want to
do.

Tony
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