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Yep. Don't know if you're a programmer but I think it's ultimately abstraction. When you watch kids learn to walk it's super difficult. It's a whole body act a
by djtango 3y ago
Yep. Don't know if you're a programmer but I think it's ultimately abstraction.
When you watch kids learn to walk it's super difficult. It's a whole body act and requires a bunch of coordination/timing of the core with the legs and hips.
Similarly with piano if you start having to do things like arpeggios or scales very fast, you no longer have time to be 100% cognizant of the minutiae of what you're doing and the higher level action takes over.
As a programmer I love to analyze and overthink so I enjoy physical activities as they ground me and remind me to let go and trust myself.
- haswell 3y agoYeah, I've written code my whole life, and spent most of it focused almost exclusively on that analytical way of thinking. The thing that Piano (and Yoga) has helped me see is how much intelligence is not of the thinking/analytical variety. I've gradually transitioned from seeing analytical thought as the only "valid" way of looking at the world to analytical thought being another tool in a toolbox and just one aspect of intelligence. How does my heart know how fast to beat? How do my vital organs function? Certainly not because I'm thinking about it :)