Как определить, подходит ли вам то, чем вы занимаетесь.
I tried to practice piano as hard as he did. I really tried. But every moment was a struggle. I could keep it up for a while, and then we’d go on vacation, and there’d be no piano easily available, and I would be breathing a sigh of relief at having a ready-made excuse, and he’d be heading off to look for a piano somewhere to practice on. Meanwhile, I am writing this post in short breaks between running around hospital corridors responding to psychiatric emergencies, and there’s probably someone very impressed with that, someone saying “But you had such a great excuse to get out of your writing practice!”
И замечательный совет - как добиться успеха.
People used to ask me for writing advice. And I, in all earnestness, would say “Just transcribe your thoughts onto paper exactly like they sound in your head.” It turns out that doesn’t work for other people. Maybe it doesn’t work for me either, and it just feels like it does.
Ведь, на самом деле, играть на пианино - просто. Просто играйте ту музыку точно так, как она звучит в вашей голове.
P.S. И немного отличных анекдотов для зануд накопал в процессе.
– Добро пожаловать в Общество зануд! Возьмите себе стул.
– Вообще-то, у этого, как вы выразились, стула, нет спинки, так что технически это табуретка.
– Похоже, у нас новый председатель!