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> It boils down to having a reason to put in the time to become proficient You just gave me an epiphany about why I am having a hard time creating music.
by arvinsim 5y ago
> It boils down to having a reason to put in the time to become proficient
You just gave me an epiphany about why I am having a hard time creating music.
- noduerme 5y agoI've struggled with exactly this lately. I used to write and record and play in bands. It sounds awful but at some point I lost hope of being commercially successful at it. The fantasy of rock stardom was what drove me to spend thousands of hours writing and playing. But I still love music. I rearranged my goals during the pandemic, bought a pedal steel guitar and started teaching myself something completely different. Now I can see myself getting onstage in a year or two and backing up a band I like, just for the joy of playing. Just having that long term goal in the back of my mind has let me lose myself in hours and hours of practice. In the code arena, I often have a "Show HN" in the back of my mind, even if I rarely or never show anything.