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Re: Does your every note matter?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-02-18 23:34

Of course, he isn't talking about music or playing the clarinet, which seems to have been only a visual prop. His point has to do with caring about what you're doing (in any activity) and the degree generally to which one should be willing to risk imperfection in order to commit to an action one cares about.

Risk and growth generally (maybe always) go together because failure, if you care, leads to learning in order to improve on the next try.

As a musician I haven't ever stopped learning because I've never stopped falling short of my goals. If I didn't care - if every note I try to play didn't matter - I'd have just given up long ago.

On the other hand, when I found as a 12-year-old that I couldn't hit even Little League pitching, I just stopped playing baseball and learned to enjoy watching others play. Playing ball just wasn't that important to me.

Karl

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